Ore. House E-govt. Committee put indefinite hold on bill to prote...
Ore. House E-govt. Committee put indefinite hold on bill to protect mobile phone and data terminal users from unwanted ads. Bill (HB-3345) would have prohibited mobile phone providers from disclosing location of customer’s phone except to 911 and law…
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enforcement agencies. Measure also would have banned sending ads to mobile phones based on customer’s location unless user consented in writing in advance. Committee Chmn. Jim Hill (R- Hillsboro) said he was opposed to adopting “onerous prohibitions” on emerging industry and feared bill unintentionally would affect new wireless technologies such as Bluetooth, allowing computers to communicate with other wireless devices in confined areas. Wireless industry interests at recent hearings said bill could make it hard for wireless customers to get services they wanted and that wireless privacy concerns were best addressed at federal, not state, level. Proponents said privacy implications of technologies that precisely pinpointed mobile phone users needed to be addressed now, before problems could arise. Bill technically isn’t dead and could be revived in current session if compromise is worked out.