June 30: New Jersey just made it illegal to sell your family's location — the other 49 states haven't

On June 30, 2026, New Jersey signed bill A5328 into law, and the ban took effect the same day: data brokers can no longer sell "precise geolocation data" or "data collected from a known child," with a penalty of "$50,000 for each record sold, offered for sale, or licensed." That means the trail your family's phones and apps leave — school runs, pediatrician visits, your kid's walk home — just became illegal merchandise in one state. The story surfaced as a high-relevance hit in this week's multi-source trend sweep, and legal analysts published breakdowns of the new law this week; families in the other 49 states are still fully for sale.