#FTC to ban #DataBroker #Kochava from selling Americans’ location data

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#FTC to ban #DataBroker #Kochava from selling Americans’ location data

FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans’ location data

The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions (CDS), from selling location data without consumers' explicit consent to settle charges alleging that it sold precise geolocation data collected from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.

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#privacy #surveillance