#USA #Privacy #Surveillance #Near #DataBrokerage #DataBroker: "The bankruptcy order also provided a rare glimpse into how data brokers license data to one another. Near’s list of contracts included agreements with several location brokers, ad platforms, universities, retailers, and city governments.
- The order listed “Data Monetization” agreements with location data broker X-Mode from 2017 through 2023, including an agreement valued at $122,706 from 2023 with X-Mode parent Digital Origin. The FTC recently banned X-Mode from selling sensitive location data as part of a settlement. The Markup previously revealed that X-Mode was one of the companies family tracking app Life360 was selling location data to (the company has since limited such data sales).
- Location data broker Tamoco was listed as having a data licensing agreement from 2021 that was amended in 2023.
- Location data broker Irys was listed as having a data supplier agreement with Near from 2019, worth $72,000. Irys and Tamoco were both among the 47 companies that The Markup identified as part of the multibillion-dollar location data industry.
It is not clear from the filing if the agreements covered Near data being licensed, Near licensing the data from the companies, or both."
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2024/02/23/what-happens-to-your-sensitive-data-when-a-data-broker-goes-bankrupt
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