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.
Venntel Location Feed
The app-data pipeline that sold your movements to ICE.
Venntel packages smartphone location data harvested from apps' advertising IDs into device movement histories and sells the feed to DHS, ICE, CBP, and the FBI — a warrantless workaround the FTC moved to shut down in 2024.
What it does
- ▸Ad-ID location aggregation
- ▸Device movement histories
- ▸Government data feed
- ▸Bulk sale
Where it's deployed
- ◍DHS, ICE, CBP, FBI (via contracts)
Agencies using it
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