First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming

IANAL but the RAY BAUM’S act (yes, it's all caps because it's a silly initialism) only applies to location data that goes "with" a particular 911 call. Not your location before the call, nor your location after the call.

So if your cell-carrier is recording your location at all moments and persisting it indefinitely, or sharing anything beyond the data generated for that particular 911 call, no law is forcing them to do that, they are choosing to disrespect your privacy for their own profits or laziness.

Unfortunately, it's inconsistently deployed and not universally usable. This is likely the result of a lack of a sufficiently-staffed regulatory body auditing for compliance and correctness because it doesn't work everywhere with all phones on all carriers even when there is the technical ability, e.g., phone has a fix. It hasn't delivered completely on its promise because it's an under-funded, under-audited mandate that needs serious carrots and sticks to ensure it's reliable.

What’s needed is an agreement between all of us, in the form of privacy laws, that make certain uses of this data illegal.

In the future if you’re caught committing a crime by data captured in a manner illegal under these laws, it would have to be thrown out and can’t be used against you. Corps would also be banned from collecting, storing, and using personal data in an unlawful manner.

Feels like a pipe dream since there’s so much money in the industrial advertising complex, but I’m pretty sure that’s what it will take achieve reasonable levels of privacy.

This is the benefit of incrementalism in policy making. We tried clear consent, and it was buried. Now the case is stronger for a ban.

And your carrier will know when you're in a jurisdiction they need to care about.

Long version: probably. Allowing the sale of location data would be deeply unpopular among the general public. Under stare decisis, the federal government would have a good chance at beating the state in a court case, but it would still be a risk- why risk the power for an unpopular case?

See also: marijuana legalization and immigration. Arizona tried codifying the federal statutes on immigration into its own state laws- not superceding, just mirroring. The federal government took them to court and won. OTOH, marijuana is also distinctly within the federal government's purview, and Wickard would apply very easily to pot laws as well... And yet, they have done nothing at all, likely because pot is too popular to risk a court case (or an election, I suppose).

Did this argument go anywhere with regards to say animal welfare laws and out of state farmers?

For example DarkSky gave neighborhood-level forecasts.

I think if you try to define what was interpreted by "papers" in a pre-digital context you would conclude it is sufficiently analogous to many things in our modern world. By "papers" they likely meant diaries, personal mail, accounting logs, ship manifests, personal inventories, order histories, receipts for travel. All things which may have been written down on a piece of paper which are now logged on our phones.

If you take an originalist argument that the constitution is static and cannot be reinterpreted/amended you have to first justify why you think amendments like the banning of slavery or women's voting rights amendments are not legitimate in the United States. We certainly have a culture of defining rights which our predecessors did not explicitly call out in the early years of its history. Even male suffrage (non-land owning males) in the late 19th century was a revolutionary step in the definition and expansion of citizens rights.

This is the article I am building my hypothesis on. If I am able to correlate place of business with an out of town event like a conference and then further refine with gender and ethnic filters.

I understand that companies will perform this analysis on your behalf. Can anyone recommend a "reputable" one?

I do sometimes get calls when I'm at home from these area codes, but when I'm traveling my spam calls are always from these area codes, which makes it very unlikely it's just random chance.

Every entrepreneur should be made prior to opening their business, to get a cell phone from montana.

Then, get a google voice #. That will be the burner for all random apps online.

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That's what airplane mode does, because it's not good for the cell network if you can be heard by two base stations that share bands (and are normally too far away to interfere with each other) and easily happens when you have altitude.

You can usually turn on WiFi/BT w/o exiting airplane mode, because lower-powered radio devices are typically permitted in situations that cell itself isn't.

sim-less phones typically don't maintain association, because it costs battery to do so, and they only start talking to towers during an emergency call. However, there is no requirement one way or the other.

The easiest way to tell is if the clock of a sim-less phone drifts over a month or two from something it was sync'd to, note that using GPS at all will often sync the clock, and some devices will "wake" the GPS module to allow it to keep an up-to-date almanac and tracking (the math kind, not the surveillance kind) parameters, so it is best to disable location entirely, instead of just avoiding using it.

If the phone has been used for a long time with a reliable time source available (tower/gps/ntp/etc), it may have a pretty good drift calibration, so it may take quite some time for drift to be visible.