{"id":1200560,"date":"2023-11-07T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200560"},"modified":"2023-11-07T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:59:00","slug":"data-brokers-staggering-sale-of-sensitive-info-exposed-in-unsealed-ftc-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1200560","title":{"rendered":"Data broker\u2019s \u201cstaggering\u201d sale of sensitive info exposed in unsealed FTC filing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the world’s largest mobile data brokers, Kochava, has lost its battle to stop the Federal Trade Commission from revealing what the FTC has alleged is a disturbing, widespread pattern of unfair use and sale of sensitive data without consent from hundreds of millions of people.<\/p>\n

US District Judge B. Lynn Winmill recently unsealed a court filing<\/a>, an amended complaint that perhaps contains the most evidence yet gathered by the FTC in its long-standing mission<\/a> to crack down on data brokers allegedly “substantially” harming consumers by invading their privacy.<\/p>\n

The FTC has accused Kochava of violating the FTC Act by amassing and disclosing “a staggering amount of sensitive and identifying information about consumers,”\u00a0alleging that Kochava’s database includes products seemingly capable of identifying nearly every person in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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