Outlogic barred from peddling sensitive location data

Outlogic, the data broker previously known as X-Mode Social, has been prohibited by the Federal Trade Commission from engaging in the sale of Americans' geolocation data following the exposure of religious affiliations, medical visits, and more sensitive individual information from the raw data it sold to organizations across numerous industries, BleepingComputer reports.

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