FTC sues data broker for allegedly selling location data from hundreds of millions of phones - CNBC
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The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Idaho-based data broker Kochava on Monday, alleging it sold location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could be used to track individuals' movements from places including reproductive health clinics, domestic violence shelters and places of worship.
Using data Kochava collected on mobile devices and combining it with public map programs, the FTC found it was possible to infer the identity of the device owner by linking those devices to sensitive locations and tracing them back to single-family homes.
The agency claimed that until at least June of this year, Kochava would grant users access to a sample data set of time-stamped location information from 61 million unique mobile devices, with relatively little effort required by the user seeking access to the data.
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The agency argues in its complaint filed in federal court in Idaho that identification via Kochava's location data "is likely to injure consumers through exposure to stigma, discrimination, physical violence, emotional distress, and other harms.
The agency claims Kochava violated a section of the FTC Act that prohibits unfair deceptive practices in commerce.
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