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The FTC's January 2025 final order restricts sensitive-location data. But its definition excludes data used for specified security purposes, federal national-security purposes, and federal law-enforcement responses to imminent death or serious bodily harm.
That distinction matters: a restriction on a defined category is not necessarily a prohibition on every use of the underlying information. It also does not authorize conduct otherwise prohibited by law.
The remaining research question is operational: what evidence demonstrates that a particular use actually qualifies for an exception?
Recorded evidence
Limitations & review notes
- Research draft. Conclusions may change; review the sources and limitations before relying on them.
- Restored archival research draft: not independently reverified for this republication and not actively monitored. Check the linked originals and dated scope before relying on it.
- The order applies to the named respondents and successors, not all data brokers. No particular post-order sale or misuse of an exception is established.
- This is a consent resolution, not a trial finding of all complaint allegations. Respondents neither admitted nor denied those allegations except specified jurisdictional facts.
- The exceptions had prior coverage. The finding is their documented scope, not a newly discovered secret permission.