On May 2, 2019, Bill HB702 HD1 SD2 passed through the Hawaii Legislature and is currently sitting on Democratic Gov. David Ige’s desk. The bill protects users’ location data gathered from smartphones, tablets and other technology equipped with satellite navigation. Ige has until June 24 to notify the Legislature if he intends to veto HB702. Hawaii would be the first state in the U.S. to prohibit the sale of location data collected by satellite-navigation-technology-equipped devices without the explicit consent of the primary user. University of Maine School of Law Student Kerri O'Malley, CIPP/US, details the proposed bill in this post for Privacy Tracker. 
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