On Wednesday, Amazon was accused by consumers who accused the retail giant secretly tracked the movement via a mobile phone and selling the collected data.
According to a collective lawsuit proposed by the San Francisco Federal Court, Amazon provides tens of thousands of application developers with codes incorporated into the Amazon ADS SDK to the consumer telephone. “Backdoor access” has been acquired.
As a result, Amazon collects geographical arrangement data of a huge amount of time stamps related to the place where consumers live, work, shopping, and visits, and are confidential information such as religious belongings, sexual orientation, and health concerns. Was revealed.
“Amazon effectively records consumers on fingerprints and completely correlate the huge amount of personal information without consumer knowledge and consent.”
The complaint was submitted by Felix Colotonsky in San Mateo, California. He said on the phone that he collected personal information through the “SPEEDTEST by OOKLA” app.
He stated that Amazon's actions violated the state law in California's criminal law and the state law for access to unauthorized computers, demanding as many Californians's unspecified damages.
Seattle -based Amazon did not respond immediately to comment requests. The plaintiff's lawyer did not respond immediately to additional comments.
Individuals and regulatory authorities have appealed that companies are trying to benefit from the information collected from mobile phones.
On January 13, Texas tracked the driver via a mobile phone, used data to raise premiums, refuse coverage, and sell data to other insurance companies. I sued.
Allstate stated that the data collection is fully compliant with all laws and regulations. Later, at least eight similar litigation for Allstate was filed.
The case is Colotinsky v -amazon.com Inc et al, NO, the US District Court, California District Court. 25-00931.
