On February 10, 2025, Keller Rohrback L.L.P. filed a class action complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. The Complaint alleges that Amazon uses its Amazon Ads Software Development Kit (SDK) to harvest data from millions of mobile app users, violating users’ privacy for monetary gain.
Plaintiff and class members allege that Amazon has been secretly collecting sensitive location data from users of popular mobile apps such as the Weather Channel, OfferUp, Speedtest by Ookla, Truecaller, and Zedge through its Amazon Ads Software Development Kit (SDK). While the Amazon Ads SDK is marketed as a toolkit for app developers and has been used to develop thousands of apps, it has another, undisclosed purpose: monetizing user data. Unbeknownst to users, the Amazon Ads SDK operates in the background of third-party applications, collecting location data from mobile phones and channeling it to Amazon for Amazon’s own monetary gain.
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