FTC Files 'Urgently Needed' Suit Against Data Broker, Citing Threat to Abortion Patients

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'Today's FTC action is urgently needed to protect patients and consumers from data surveillance-superpowered vigilantes, extremists, and overzealous prosecutors,' said Public_Citizen's Rob_Weissman.

about how data from devices like smartphones may be used to target patients and healthcare providers.

"This lawsuit highlights the very real threats that data surveillance poses to peoples' safety, security, bodily integrity, and access to healthcare," he continued."It is why it so important that the FTC is pursuing a broad rule to protect consumer privacy and restrict data surveillance, and why Congress should pass legislation to ensure robust privacy protections for all Americans.

The filing points out that in addition to its paid services, until June, Kochava had a data sample on Amazon Web Services that was relatively easy to access for free. One day of that dataset examined by the FTC corresponded to nearly 62 million unique mobile numbers. The filing also asserts that"the collection and use of their location data are opaque to consumers, who typically do not know who has collected their location data and how it is being used," and Kochava"could implement safeguards to remove data associated with sensitive locations… at a reasonable cost and expenditure of resources."

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