The Federal Trade Commission is suing an adtech company for selling geolocation information from mobile devices used to track individuals' movements, the agency announced Monday.
Driving the news: The FTC voted 4-1 to authorize the suit in an Idaho federal court against data broker Kochava, Inc., for selling data from hundreds of millions of phones that traced the movements of people around sensitive locations like reproductive health clinics, domestic violence shelters and addiction recovery centers.
Lawyers for Elon Musk have filed a subpoena for Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former security chief who recently came forward as a whistleblower alleging his former employer deceived regulators, per a new court filing.
Why it matters: Musk's legal team is trying to leverage the wrongdoings alleged by Zatko, who goes by the pseudonym "Mudge," in its defense of Musk's attempt to walk away from his $44 billion takeover bid.
California's legislature is on track to pass tough online privacy rules for kids this week, as the state once again pushes past the federal government in internet regulation.
Why it matters: Any rules California sets are sure to spur copycat laws in other states and could push Congress to act on similar nationwide legislation.
What’s Next usually focuses on, well, what’s next. But today we're going back in time.
Two of Axios' visual journalists, Aïda Amer and Shoshana Gordon, curated a series of images showing what people in bygone eras imagined the future would bring.
Why it matters: Our wildest dreams are sometimes not too far off from reality, and though we may not get the details right, it's striking how often we get close.
The landmines that plague Ukraine following six months of drawn-out fighting have a new enemy as minesweeping teams get a boost from high-tech drones.
The big picture: As much as 62,000 square miles of Ukrainian land could be "contaminated" by mines, per Kyiv's most recent estimate. Removing all those explosives-in-waiting will take years, if not decades.
