Geofencing
What is Geofencing?
A location-based security control that creates virtual boundaries to trigger actions such as access restrictions or alerts when devices enter or leave defined geographic areas.
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What the standards actually require on geofencing
Requirements naming geofencing across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.
Prohibits establishing a geofence within 1,750 feet of a mental-health or reproductive/sexual-health facility to identify, track or send notifications to consumers about their health data.
CTDPA-42-525-GEOFENCE · Geofencing Prohibition Near Health Facilities (PA 23-56) →A person must not use a geofence within 1,850 feet of any health care facility, including mental health and reproductive or sexual health facilities, to identify, track, collect data from, or send notifications to a consumer about their consumer health data.
vermont-data-privacy-and-online-surveillance-act::2415k-3 · 9 V.S.A. § 2415k(3) No geofencing within 1,850 feet of health care facilities →Use of Consumer Health Data for advertising, profiling, or targeted communications requires consent, prohibits geofencing of health facilities, and requires governance over ad-tech and analytics vendors.
MHMD-MKT.1 · Marketing and advertising governance →Questions people ask about geofencing
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