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FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data
The first of its kind settlement prohibits X-Mode, now known as Outlogic, from sharing and selling users' sensitive information to others.
For at least one of its contracts, the FTC said that X-Mode provided an unnamed private clinical research company with information about consumers who had visited certain medical facilities, pharmacies, or specialty infusion centers within a geographic area across Columbus, Ohio. X-Mode also failed to ensure that users of its own apps — Drunk Mode and Walk Against Humanity — were fully informed about how their precise location data would be used, the FTC said. “The information revealed through the location data that X-Mode/Outlogic sold not only violated consumers’ privacy but also exposed them to potential discrimination, physical violence, emotional distress, and other harms,” the FTC said in a statement.
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