{"id":145147,"date":"2022-08-30T02:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/ftc-sues-data-broker-over-selling-location-data-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones"},"modified":"2022-08-30T02:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T07:24:50","slug":"ftc-sues-data-broker-over-selling-location-data-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/ftc-sues-data-broker-over-selling-location-data-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones","title":{"rendered":"FTC Sues Data Broker Over Selling Location Data for Hundreds of Millions of Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ftc-sues-data-broker-over-selling-location-data-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday said it filed a lawsuit against Kochava, a location data broker, for collecting and selling precise geolocation data gathered from consumers\u2019 mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint alleges that the U.S. company <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/08\/ftc-sued-by-firm-allegedly-selling-sensitive-data-on-abortion-clinic-visits\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amasses<\/a> a \u201cwealth of information\u201d about users by purchasing data from other data brokers to sell to its own clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKochava then sells customized data feeds to its clients to, among other purposes, assist in advertising and analyzing foot traffic at stores or other locations,\u201d the FTC <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.ftc.gov\/consumer-alerts\/2022\/08\/ftc-sues-company-sells-consumers-sensitive-location-information\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cAmong other categories, Kochava sells timestamped latitude and longitude coordinates showing the location of mobile devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday said it filed a lawsuit against Kochava, a location data broker, for collecting and selling precise geolocation data gathered from consumers\u2019 mobile devices. The complaint alleges that the U.S. company amasses a \u201cwealth of information\u201d about users by purchasing data from other data brokers to sell to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}