FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month

Ars Technica
By Dan GoodinAug 29, 2022, 3:06 pm159 pts
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled from hundreds of millions of phones that can be used to track the movements of people visiting abortion clinics, domestic abuse shelters, places of worship, and other sensitive…

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