{"id":6861,"date":"2022-08-29T20:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/ftc-sues-company-for-selling-data-that-could-be-used-to-track-consumers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T18:41:19","slug":"ftc-sues-company-for-selling-data-that-could-be-used-to-track-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/ftc-sues-company-for-selling-data-that-could-be-used-to-track-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC sues company for selling data that could be used to track consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit against data broker Kochava seeks to halt the sale of sensitive geolocation data and delete what was collected<\/p>\n<p>The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday sued Idaho-based data broker Kochava for selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could be used to track consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC said consumer data could be used to trace people\u2019s movements to and from sensitive locations including \u201creproductive health clinics, places of worship, homeless and domestic violence shelters, and addiction recovery facilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/29\/ftc-sues-kochava-tracking-privacy-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b455928c7ee40122ba682ce9802b929a7119028c\/0_219_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c6fe3d25000d526f4b49c2b909364f4d\" title=\"FTC sues company for selling data that could be used to track consumers\" \/>The lawsuit against data broker Kochava seeks to halt the sale of sensitive geolocation data and delete what was collected<br \/>\nThe US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday sued Idaho-based data broker Kochava for selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could be used to track consumers.<br \/>\nThe FTC said consumer data could be used to trace people\u2019s movements to and from sensitive locations including \u201creproductive health clinics, places of worship, homeless and domestic violence shelters, and addiction recovery facilities\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit against data broker Kochava seeks to halt the sale of sensitive geolocation data and delete what was collected The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday sued Idaho-based data broker Kochava for selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could be used to track consumers. The FTC said consumer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/ftc-sues-company-for-selling-data-that-could-be-used-to-track-consumers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FTC sues company for selling data that could be used to track consumers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}