FTC bans location data providers Gravy and subsidiary Venntel as well as Mobilewalla from using or selling data related to sensitive locations and more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced sweeping action against some of the most important companies in the location data industry on Tuesday …
Here is how Venntel got its data, according to a 2020 investigation from me and Norwegian outlet NRK. Ordinary weather and navigation apps included www.404media.co/ftc-bans-loc... [images]
they were selling “sensitive characteristics, like health or medical decisions, political activities and religious viewpoints, derived from consumers' location data.” just crazy www.404media.co/ftc-bans-loc...
Pretty big deal: The FTC has banned one of the biggest companies powering the cell phone location tracking surveillance ecosystem from selling huge swaths of sensitive data and has ordered it to delete lots of data it has collected www.404media.co/ftc-bans-loc...
the FTC just told this company, which was collecting “17 billion signals from around a billion mobile devices daily” from sensitive locations like health clinics and migrant shelters and selling that data, that it must cut it the fuck out immediately https://www.404media.co/...