Proposed Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Amazon Sold Consumers' Geolocation Data

Amazon reportedly faces a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges the company tracked consumers’ movements through their cellphones and sold the data it collected.The complaint alleges that an Amazon Ads SDK embedded in apps by tens of thousands of app developers enabled Amazon to collect timestamped geolocation data about where consumers live, work, shop and visit, Reuters reported Wednesday (Jan. 29).“Amazon has effectively fingerprinted consumers and has correlated a vast amount of personal informatio ...