The Federal Trade Commission is suing Kochava, a data analytics company, for selling location data from “hundreds of millions of mobile devices.” The geolocation data in question included identifiable information that could trace individuals back to plenty of sensitive locations, like reproductive health clinics, places of worship, domestic violence shelters, and addiction recovery centers.
Selling this data, the FTC alleges, boils down to Kochava “enabling others to identify individuals and exposing them to threats of stigma, stalking, discrimination, job loss, and even physical violence.”
