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Speaker 1: Senator Michael Morris's data protection Massachusetts is in a sorry state.

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Speaker 2: And also it allows now companies to collect data that

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Speaker 2: they don't need for their business plan and to sell it.

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Speaker 1: That's why he sponsored the mass Data Privacy Act to

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Speaker 1: crack down on some of the data wheeling and dealing

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Speaker 1: that he says modern companies do with our information. The

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Speaker 1: bill would ban or limit the sale of many different

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Speaker 1: kinds of data to third parties like race, sex, orientation,

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Speaker 1: or even your exact location. With that last one, they

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Speaker 1: want to avoid states hostile to abortion finding out if

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Speaker 1: someone's been here.

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Speaker 2: Either one of these bills passed, or I think Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: WI will have one of the stronger bills in the country.

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Speaker 1: Another provision letting people opt out of targeted ads and

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Speaker 1: batting them outright for children. The bill is rapidly making

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Speaker 1: its way through the House, now passed unanimously in the Senate.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shaffeld WBZ, Boston's news radio