Venntel is a government-facing geolocation intelligence company that, per its own site, provides 'geolocation intelligence, mobility analytics, and OSINT solutions for government agencies, risk managers, and national security teams.' Its privacy policy discloses that it receives precise latitude/longitude location data from third-party app 'Partners,' tied to mobile advertising IDs (Apple IDFA / Google Advertising ID), and that it sells or discloses this and other personal information to customers that explicitly include law enforcement, national security and data-management-platform buyers; the same policy contains a direct self-declared notice that 'this website may sell your sensitive personal data.' In January 2025, the FTC finalized an order against Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel prohibiting the sale, disclosure or use of sensitive location data — including data revealing visits to health-related locations and places of worship — except in narrow national-security or law-enforcement circumstances, after alleging the companies sold such data without verifiable consumer consent.
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[2025-01-17]
The FTC finalized an order in January 2025 prohibiting Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel from selling, disclosing, or using sensitive location data except in limited national-security or law-enforcement circumstances, after alleging the companies used geofencing to identify and sell lists of consumers who visited healthcare facilities and places of worship without verifiable user consent.
Venntel's privacy policy states it receives precise latitude/longitude 'Location Data' from third-party app 'Partners,' associated with a mobile advertising ID such as Apple's IDFA or Google's Advertising ID — location data harvested from users of unrelated third-party mobile apps, not collected directly from or with the direct knowledge of the people profiled.
California's Data Broker Registry lists 'Venntel, Inc.' directly (separately from its parent Gravy Analytics) as a registered data broker at a Herndon, Virginia address, with its own listed privacy contact and privacy policy URL — independent government-registry confirmation of Venntel as an operating entity, though the registry entry does not itself state the Gravy Analytics parent relationship.
The FTC's January 2025 press release identifies Venntel as a subsidiary of Gravy Analytics, describing its final order as covering 'Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel.'
Venntel's privacy policy contains a direct self-declared notice stating 'this website may sell your sensitive personal data,' and separately discloses that the categories of parties to whom it has sold personal information include its affiliates, vendors, and 'Third parties, which include our customers, partners, law enforcement, data management platforms.'
The FTC finalized an order in January 2025 prohibiting Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel from selling, disclosing, or using sensitive location data except in limited national-security or law-enforcement circumstances, after alleging the companies used geofencing to identify and sell lists of consumers who visited healthcare facilities and places of worship without verifiable user consent.
Venntel's own homepage describes its product as 'geolocation intelligence, mobility analytics, and OSINT solutions for government agencies, risk managers, and national security teams,' and its privacy policy discloses that the Identifiers and Internet/Network Activity data it processes from Partners include the mobile advertiser ID (MAID), hashed e-mail, timestamps, and the list of mobile applications from which location signals were received.