What Kochava / Collective Data Solutions does with your data
Cars, carriers, apps and travel. A data broker: people don't sign up with it.
Data current as of 2026-09-25; statuses change.
- Program
- Location data feeds sold via data marketplaces
- Role
- Data broker, location data broker. Location data feeds sold through data marketplaces.
- Members
- 35 million accounts (2023). Daily active devices claimed in Kochava marketing cited in the FTC amended complaint; 125 million monthly active users.
- Retail media
- None found in the research
What it collects and does with your data
- Kochava marketing cited by the FTC: raw latitude/longitude feed of about 94 billion geo transactions per month, 125 million monthly active users, 35 million daily active users, averaging more than 90 daily transactions per device.
- FTC alleged Kochava sold location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could trace individuals, including visits to health facilities and places of worship.
Sensitive data
- precise geolocation
- visits to reproductive health clinics, places of worship, shelters (alleged)
Enforcement and litigation
1 matter in the research. Where the research says alleged, pending, or settled without admitting wrongdoing, so does this page.
- FTC v. Kochava (D. Idaho, No. 2:22-cv-00377), filed Aug 2022; first complaint dismissed May 2023 with leave to amend; amended complaint survived dismissal Feb 2024. Stipulated order banning sale of sensitive location data without affirmative express consent, proposed 2026-05-04 and entered by Senior Judge B. Lynn Winmill on 2026-06-25 (Dkt. 138). Status: order entered.
Who else holds your data
Organizations holding a copy of your data, as the research counts them: at least 3. Source app, Kochava, and each marketplace buyer (count unknown).
Third parties: Named: Data marketplace buyers (count unknown)
Companies the research links to Kochava / Collective Data Solutions
None. The research documents no flow to Kochava / Collective Data Solutions from a company on the calculator's list, so the calculator doesn't count it for anyone.
Data practices score
11 of 15. Five components, each 0 to 3. How the score works
- Sells or shares
- 3
- Enforcement
- 3
- Retail media scale
- 0
- Sensitive data
- 2
- Opt-out friction
- 3
Estimated emissions for one person
Research gaps
- Current feed volume.
Sources (3)
- https://therecord.media/ftc-complaint-against-kochava-unsealed 2023-11
- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-ban-kochava-subsidiary-selling-sensitive-location-data-settle-charges-they-sold-location-data 2026-05-04
- https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Kochava-Order.pdf 2026-06-25
The Sources page lists these with their kind and what else uses them.