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Privacy Implications of Real-Time Bidding – Lessons From the Mobilewalla Enforcement Action

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With advances in digital technology and consumers’ insatiable appetite for “free” content, the advertising technology industry (AdTech) has played a crucial role in delivering highly personalized ad campaigns to consumers...more

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FTC Continues to Bring Enforcement Actions Against Data Brokers

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On December 3, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two enforcement actions against large data aggregator companies, Mobilewalla, Inc. (“Mobilewalla”) and Gravy Analytics Inc. (“Gravy Analytics”), for alleged...more

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FTC Cracks Down on Selling Sensitive Location Info, Restricts Use of Consumer Data for 1st Time

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced two significant enforcement actions last week – one against data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. and the other against data analytics provider Gravy Analytics, Inc. (and its subsidiary...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #423 – FTC Files Complaint Against Mobilewalla for Selling Consumers’ Precise Location Data

I have commented before that I do not enable location-based services unless I use an app that requires it, like a ride-sharing app or directions. One of the reasons is to prevent data brokers and others from using precise...more

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Proposes Rule to Regulate Data Brokers Under Fair Credit Reporting Act

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced a proposed new rule that all data brokers be regulated under the 1970 Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a federal law that protects the use and privacy of credit...more

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FTC Staff Report Warns of Privacy Risks in Social Media Companies’ AI Practices — AI: The Washington Report

On September 19, 2024, the FTC released a Staff Report on the data collection and data use practices of large social media and video streaming service (SMVSS) platforms. The Report describes how these platforms engage in...more

Wiley Rein LLP

New Federal Data Broker Law Will Restrict Certain Foreign Data Sales Effective June 23

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On April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law H.R. 815, which includes the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFA or the Act), a significant restriction on foreign data sales by U.S....more

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Congress Proposes New Comprehensive Privacy Legislation: The American Privacy Rights Act

On April 7, 2024, Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) announced that Congress will once again consider a comprehensive federal data privacy bill that, if passed, would dramatically...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Data At Issue: FTC Focus on Browsing Information and Location Data

Since the start of the year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought actions against – and reached proposed settlements with – three business ventures engaged in the collection, use and sharing of certain consumer...more

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FTC Settlements Provide Updated Guidance on Collection or Use of Geolocation Data

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reached two settlements in actions against data brokers concerning their use of consumer location data and banning them from collecting, using, or selling consumer location data...more

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Recent Enforcement Actions Signal FTC Focus on Protecting Location Data

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On January 9, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its first ever prohibition on the use, sale and disclosure of sensitive location data against X- Mode Social and Outlogic (“X-Mode”), a location data broker. Only...more

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FTC's Sensitive Location Privacy Collection and Sale Expectations: Insights From Data Broker Settlements (and 10 Action Items to...

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Following several years of investigating the common practices in the space, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached its first settlement with a data broker over the alleged collection and sale of location information that...more

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FTC Gives it to X-Mode: 5 Lessons from the Agency’s Latest Consumer Location Data Case

The FTC announced an action last week against location data broker X-Mode Social and its corporate successor Outlogic (collectively, “X-Mode”) based on several alleged violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act. According to FTC...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Continues Focus on Data Brokers and Sensitive Information

The FTC is beginning 2024 with a bang. Just a few short days after announcing a settlement with lead-generation company Response Tree, the FTC has announced another decision. In this latest announcement, the FTC has described...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

In Amended Complaint, FTC Alleges Kochava, a Data Broker, Is Collecting, Using and Disclosing “Massive Amounts” of Precise...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has long expressed a concern about the potential misuse of location data. For example, in a 2022 blog post, “Location, health, and other sensitive information: FTC committed to fully...more

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California Delete Act: An Aggressive New Approach to Regulating Data Brokers

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On October 10, Governor Newsom signed the Delete Act ( SB 362) into law, which amends California's current data broker law to impose extensive additional disclosure and registration requirements on data brokers, and to...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (May 23, 2023)

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Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more

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FTC Challenge to Data Broker Precise Geolocation Sale Dismissed with Leave to Amend

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In a ruling published May, 4, the Federal District Court of Idaho granted defendant data broker Kochava’s motion to dismiss a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). In its complaint, the FTC alleged that...more

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CFPB Issues Request for Information on Data Brokers

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On Wednesday, March 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced an inquiry into data brokers, issuing a “Request for Information Regarding Data Brokers and Other Business Practices Involving the Collection...more

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CFPB Requests Information on Data Brokers and Business Practices

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a request for information (RFI) to examine the practices of data brokers and businesses involved in the collection, use, and sale of consumer information on March 15,...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (September 20, 2022)

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Regulatory Announcements- FTC Holds September Open Commission Meeting and Votes to Approve Government and Business Impersonation Fraud NPRM, Gig Work Policy Statement, and Dark Patterns Report. On September 15, the FTC held...more

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FTC Sues Data Broker Over Sales of Geolocation Data

On August 29, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had filed a complaint in Idaho federal district court against Kochava Inc., a data broker, seeking injunctive relief on account of alleged violations of...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

FTC Sues Data Provider over the Collection and Sale of Geolocation Data

On August 29, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had filed a complaint against Kochava, Inc. (“Kochava”), a digital marketing and analytics firm, seeking an order halting Kochava’s alleged acquisition...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

New FTC Action on Data Security: Here’s What You Should Know

On Aug. 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the collection, sharing and use of certain information which it refers to as “commercial surveillance data” and whether the...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Ban the Sale of Location and Health Data

On June 15, 2022, Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill, cosponsored by a host of other Democratic and independent Senators, the “Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2022,” which, subject to a few exceptions,...more

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