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2025 is turning out to be very meta so far. Good scoop by 404 Media.

Gravy Analytics was the supplier of location data for the service that both Joe Cox and I wrote about recently at Babel Street that makes it simple to track the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of mobile devices just by looking at mobile ad data. They were recently sued by the FTC.

Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/ftc-takes-action-against-gravy-analytics-venntel-unlawfully-selling-location-data-tracking-consumers

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/