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Firm pays $950000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users
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While InMobi claimed that its software collected geographical whereabouts only when end users provided opt-in consent, the software in fact used nearby Wi-Fi signals to infer locations when permission wasn't given, FTC officials alleged. InMobi then ...

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