FTC dings InMobi ad network for tracking world+dog

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that mobile advertising giant InMobi will pay $950K to settle charges that it tracked "hundreds of millions" of people around the world. The US trade body agreed to the fine as part of a settlement deal that will also include InMobi deleting any information it collected on children, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Flip this on it's head...

if permission has been denied to GeoLocation for an App. How come Google / Apple / Google have allowed access via the OS?

[BillG]

Murphy's Rule of Personal Data

Once they have your personal information, they will ignore laws and EULAs and privacy settings and exploit it at will.

(Also one of the Ferengi Laws of Acquisition)

[Steve Aubrey]

Penalty seems light

Sure, it's a million bucks, but that's (relative) chump change for what they did.

And every-other-year audits? That's three months to re-configure, a year and a half to do it again, and three months to scrub the database. Not saying that they will, but still isn't as stinging as it could be.

[kain preacher]

The fine is miss some 0s.