Lawsuit
FTC action over warrantless location sales
2024The FTC moved against Gravy Analytics and its Venntel subsidiary for unlawfully selling sensitive location data that tracked people to health clinics, places of worship, and protests.
Location Data Brokers
Venntel
Subsidiary of Gravy Analytics.
Venntel, a subsidiary of Gravy Analytics, aggregates smartphone location data harvested from ordinary apps' advertising IDs and sells the resulting movement histories to government — DHS, ICE, CBP, the FBI, and the IRS — as a way to track people without a warrant. The FTC moved against the practice in 2024.
◍ Herndon, VirginiaEst. 2015
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