The Federal Trade Commission is suing a data broker for selling location data that could track people going to sensitive locations, like abortion clinics.
major data broker Kochava Inc. for allegedly selling location data that could track people going to abortion clinics, fertility clinics, addiction recovery centers, domestic violence shelters, and a number of other sensitive locations. The company has denied any wrongdoing.
“Kochava purchased sensitive geolocation data for hundreds of millions of mobile devices & sold this data in easily re-identifiable form, likely exposing people to threats of stigma, discrimination, and physical violence,” Lina Khan, the Chair of the FTC,The suit further alleges that Kochava’s data services allowed the FTC to identify a visitor to an abortion clinic and find her home address, which could hypothetically expose her identity.
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