Federal Trade Commission says the data could be used to track visits to reproductive-health clinics.
A US consumer watchdog has begun legal action against a firm that allegedly sold location data that some fear could help identify people having abortions.sold data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.
It says the release of data could expose individuals to "stigma, discrimination, physical violence, emotional distress, and other harms".The company, founded in 2011, says on its website that it "complies with all user data privacy and consent regulations".Privacy Block, technology that it says will remove health-services location data from its data marketplace.
According to the statement, Kochava was constantly monitoring and adjusting its technology to block location data from other sensitive places.
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