Data brokers should stop trading health and location data, new bill proposes

Senators introduced the “Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2024,” seeking to ban data brokers from selling or transferring sensitive location and health data, fund FTC enforcement with $1B, and allow the FTC, state attorneys general, and victims to sue violators; the article frames the bill against the backdrop of recent data-broker breaches (e.g., National Public Data) and APRA’s uncertain passage, and concludes with a promotion for Malwarebytes Personal Data Remover.