Those who collect and sell location data might have raised an eyebrow last week when the Federal Trade Commission sued Kochava, a data broker, for, well, collecting and selling location data.

Rewind: The FTC alleged that Kochava was selling data that could be used to “trace the movements of individuals to and from sensitive locations.” Though Kochava argued in its own lawsuit—that was filed in anticipation of the FTC’s suit—that the FTC’s case is baseless, privacy experts told Marketing Brew that the commission’s argument is so broad that it could, theoretically, put the collection and sale of location data under the thumb of regulators.

• There are currently no federal laws that regulate the data-broker industry—and Kochava has gone as far as to argue that consumers who agree to share their data should actually expect their data to be bought and sold to third parties. The FTC is trying to make the case that collecting and selling this sensitive data is “opaque to consumers, who typically do not know who has collected their location data and how it is being used.”

Looking ahead: The argument that this is unfair and could cause harm to consumers is “untested in court,” Allison Lefrak, SVP of public policy, ads privacy and COPPA compliance at Pixalate, told Marketing Brew.

“It can be read as an indictment of location-based marketing and even an indictment, more broadly, of the entire data-broker business model,” she said. The FTC has an “uphill battle here in proving substantial injury to consumers,” Lefrak said, but if it prevails, the ruling could create a precedent that other data brokers would need to follow.

Read the full story here.—RB

Each Tuesday, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.

Stephanie Tweel is director of programmatic at Digital Matter, a digital consultancy for e-commerce businesses.

Favorite project you’ve worked on? I worked on a large entertainment client to drive viewership and tune in. We ran an activation where we partnered with a company to create custom pizza boxes with the show’s graphics and delivered them via drone to target markets. We ran online ads to promote the activation, and it received a lot of positive press for the show’s season premiere.

What’s your favorite ad campaign? Nike’s “Dream Crazier” ad gave me chills. It’s empowering and a great example of storytelling. Ads don’t have to push a product in your face to be effective. In fact, they shouldn’t!

One thing we can’t guess from your LinkedIn profile? I’m an avid fiction reader. It would be a dream to write a novel one day.

What marketing trend are you most optimistic about? Least? I’m least optimistic about the deprecation of third-party cookies. I don’t believe consumers understand they are going to continue to receive ads, but they will be less targeted and publishers will need to serve more of them to monetize their sites. I actually believe cookie-based targeting is a better alternative for both brands and consumers, but the misunderstanding around them led us to their decline.

I am most optimistic about the shift in focus on first-party data. I work with a lot of brands who are not using their customer data to its full potential, and I feel there’s a large opportunity to help brands evolve in this capacity through tools like customer segmentation, RFM scoring, etc.

What’s one marketing-related podcast/social account/series you’d recommend? @mediaproblems on Instagram. We all need to be able to laugh at our jobs. It’s just marketing, after all.

Retail Brew’s Andrew Adam Newman recently looked into why some retailers—like the Gap and PacSun—don’t accept altered items through their resale programs, while companies like Poshmark and eBay do. Read an excerpt below, or click here for the full story.

Nearly three out of four (73%) sellers of secondhand items also purchase them, according to an August report from Recurate, a two-year-old tech startup that helps brands launch their own resale programs.

Recurate calls these buyers-slash-sellers “circulars,” and they’re apt to purchase clothing with an eye for something more traditionally associated with car and home shoppers: resale value.

And one way to hurt the resale value of clothing—especially if you’re hoping to sell it through the resale programs of brands themselves—is to alter it.

There are a lot of bad marketing tips out there. These aren’t those.

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1. 50 Cent
2. Nick Cannon
3. Vanessa Hudgens
4. Steve Aoki

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