Suzanne Smalley reports: The Federal Trade Commission announced its second settlement with a location data broker in as many weeks Thursday, signaling the agency is more aggressively policing the sector for peddling individuals’ most sensitive data to the highest bidder, often without informed consent. The agency alleges that data aggregator InMarket Media improperly collected, used…
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Rutherford Institute Opposes Census Bureau’s Plans to Question Citizens About Mental Health, Psychosocial Disabilities in Mandatory Survey
From The Rutherford Institute: The Rutherford Institute is once again pushing back against the U.S. Census Bureau’s efforts to amass sensitive private information about individual citizens and their property through its mandatory American Community Survey (ACS). In addition to the already extensive and invasive list of personal questions included on the ACS, the Census Bureau…
The DNA of privacy: FTC guide to keeping sensitive data private
Scott Loughlin and Alyssa Golay of Hogan Lovells write: The FTC has again emphasized the importance of protecting genetic data and consumer privacy in the context of genetic testing and biometric surveillance technology with new guidance posted on January 5, 2024. Highlighting a set of enforcement actions (CRI Genetics, 1Health/Vitagene, and Genelink), and referencing additional orders involving sensitive data (Ring and Amazon/Alexa), the…
FTC bans data broker from selling Americans’ location data
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned data broker Outlogic, formerly X-Mode Social, from selling Americans’ raw location data that could be used for tracking purposes. Under the order released today, the first time data brokers were barred from sharing and selling users’ sensitive location data, Outlogic must now delete all…