The Illinois State Senate is considering three privacy-related bills concerning the right to let citizens know about the data collected about them, unauthorized device microphone recordings protection, and the prohibition of unwanted geolocation services, dubbed the Right to Know Act, the Geolocation Privacy Protection Act and the Microphone-Enabled Device Act, respectively, ConsumerAffairs reports. Illinois Senator Michael Hastings emphasized that citizens should know where their data goes, and the Right to Know Act helps achieve that goal. Privacy advocates have their eye on the proposed Illinois laws, believing that they could "spread to other states, partly compensating for the Federal Communications Commission's plans to scrap Obama-era privacy protections," the report states.
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