The U.S. Federal Trade Commission banned data aggregator InMarket Media from selling precise location data for marketing purposes after the company allegedly did not get consumers' consent. Meanwhile, the Electronic Privacy Information Center urged the FTC to investigate Google for collecting similar data for locations like abortion clinics, despite promises to delete that information.
19 Jan. 2024
FTC bans data aggregator from selling location data
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