Keypoint: Advertising platform settles with the FTC over allegations that it collected location data without consent and collected information from child-directed apps without notice or parental consent in violation of the FTC Act and COPPA.
Online advertising exchange platform, OpenX Technologies, Inc., has been ordered to pay $2 million of a $7.5 million judgment to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it misrepresented its data collection, use, and disclosure practices as it concerns personal information collected from children and location information collected from consumers who had not granted or had denied requisite location permissions.