The US government has filed a lawsuit against an Idaho-based data firm accused of selling geolocation data tied to millions of mobile devices, including location information that can reveal visits to abortion clinics, addiction recovery centres and places of worship.
In the first case of its kind in the wake of the US Supreme Court ruling striking down the right to abortion care, a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission alleges that Kochava “puts consumers at significant risk” by allowing people and companies to purchase reams of data tracking the movement of mobile devices, which could be used to identify the users.
