The settlement is intended to resolve accusations made by the FTC that Outlogic "did not implement reasonable or appropriate safeguards" to prevent the location information it sold from being mishandled by third parties and potentially endangering consumers.
In its complaint, the regulator claimed that Outlogic had violated consumer privacy by failing to implement policies for removing sensitive location information from the raw location data it sold until "at least May 2023." Outlogic gathered detailed location data by purchasing it from other brokers, collecting it with its own Drunk Mode and Walk Against Humanity apps, and relying on third-party apps that integrated its location tracking software. The FTC criticized the company for allegedly failing to fully inform customers regarding how the location data it was collecting would be used and to honor requests from Android users to not be tracked.
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