"My office began to investigate Near in May 2023, after an investigation by the Wall Street Journal revealed that an anti-abortion organization used location data from Near to target anti abortion messaging and ads to people who had visited reproductive health clinics," Wyden says in the letter. "The ad campaign reportedly ran from November 2019 through the summer of 2022, after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, permitting states to criminalize abortion."
"In the October 18, 2023, call with my staff, Mr. Angelo revealed that while he had put a stop to the company's sale of data about Europeans, which is subject to Europe's strong privacy law, the company was still selling location data about Americans," the letter says. "He also confirmed that the data it sold about Americans was obtained without consent."
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