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Comment: Location-data industry practices, not just a few bad apples, focus of US FTC enforcement

By Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes ( January 18, 2024, 22:58 GMT | Comment) -- InMarket Media joined X-Mode Social today as the latest data brokers to face a painful enforcement action from the US Federal Trade Commission over location data for peddling the latitude, longitude and timestamp records of when people used their mobile phones. Those two data broker orders are unlikely to be the FTC’s last, and represent the agency’s determination that the entire location data industry has a problem, and it’s not just an issue of a few bad apples. InMarket Media joined X-Mode Social today as the latest data brokers to face a painful enforcement action from the US Federal Trade Commission over location data for peddling the latitude, longitude and timestamp records of when people used their mobile phones. These two data broker orders are unlikely to be the agency’s last....

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