Tell your State Representative: Pass strong data privacy legislation!

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Today, technology has far outpaced privacy law. Data brokers and Big Tech are free to do almost anything they want with our personal information, including selling our cellphone location data on the open market. These practices endanger all of us, but especially vulnerable communities like immigrants, protesters, and people seeking and providing reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare.

The Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act (H.4746) flips the script, giving all Massachusetts residents robust privacy rights in the digital age. Specifically, it bans the sale of our precise geolocation data and creates statutory limits on data collection and processing, ending the "anything goes" era of Big Tech surveillance once and for all.

Take action now to urge your state representative to support strong, enforceable privacy law.

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Take action now to urge your state representative to support strong, enforceable privacy law.

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Subject Support strong data privacy legislation!

I am thrilled to see strong data privacy legislation advancing in the House. As your constituent, I hope you will advocate for passage of the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act (H.4746), recently redrafted in the Advanced IT Committee and sent to House Ways & Means.

This bill is a critical step to not only protect our privacy, but to keep people in Massachusetts safe from exploitation, harassment or violence – including seniors, children, people seeking abortion and gender-affirming care, survivors of domestic abuse, veterans, and law enforcement.

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People across the political spectrum in Massachusetts support strong data privacy laws. Pew found 78% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans support lawmakers taking action to protect their online privacy, and 92% of Massachusetts voters support banning the sale of location data.

Like the best privacy laws in other states, the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act would stop unnecessary and invasive online surveillance by creating meaningful limits on the collection and use of our personal data and prohibiting companies from selling our precise location information. A strong data privacy law must also include a robust private right of action, to ensure companies follow the law.

This legislation has the potential to save lives by protecting those vulnerable to violence and harassment, including victims of domestic abuse and stalking, healthcare providers and patients, and elected officials.

Please act to protect our privacy and personal safety by passing the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act as swiftly as possible.

Thank you for your leadership in the fight for data privacy!

Sincerely,

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