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FTC BANS KOCHAVA FROM SELLING LOCATION DATA

The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Kochava and its subsidiary Collective Data Solutions from selling Americans' location data without explicit consent. The settlement resolves 2022 charges that the companies sold precise geolocation information from hundreds of millions of mobile devices.

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FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans’ location data

The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary, Collective Data Solutions (CDS), from selling location data wit…

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The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary CDS from selling Americans' location data as part of a settlement over charges brought in 2022 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The FTC will ban data broker Kochava and its subsidiary CDS from selling Americans' lo…

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A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Russia's Karakurt ransomware group (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: A US court sentences a Latvian national to 8.5 years for acting as a negotiator for Ru…

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