Ad network InMobi has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and tracked their locations without knowledge and consent. In its complaint for civil damages and a permanent injunction (below), the FTC alleged that even if consumers had denied the location services request of one of InMobi’s partner apps, the company still used WiFi triangulation to track location:
Even if the consumer had restricted an application’s access to the location API, until December 2015, Defendant still tracked the consumer’s location and, in many instances, served geo-targeted ads, by collecting information about the WiFi networks that the consumer’s device connected to or that were in-range of the consumer’s device.
