FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month

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  1. hawki

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    "The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled from hundreds of millions of phones that can be used to track the movements of people visiting abortion clinics, domestic abuse shelters, places of worship, and other sensitive places...

    In a complaint, the agency said that Idaho-based Kochava has promoted its marketplace as providing 'rich geo data spanning billions of devices globally'...

    The FTC said Kochava amassed the data by tracking the Mobile Advertising ID, or MAID, from phones and selling the data through Amazon Web Services or other outlets without first anonymizing the data..."

    https://arstechnica.com/information...n-data-that-can-track-abortion-clinic-visits/
     
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