Federal Trade Commission v. Kochava, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, Case No. 2:22-cv-00377-BLW Plaintiff, MEMORANDUM DECISION v. AND ORDER KOCHAVA INC., Defendant. INTRODUCTION This case is about mobile devices, location data, and privacy. The underlying dispute is whether the defendant, Kochava, Inc., is engaging in an “unfair . . . act or practice” by selling geolocation data that could enable third parties to track mobile device users to and from sensitive locations. At this early stage in the litigation, however, the Court must only decide whether the plaintiff, the Federal…