“Seven months later it filed for bankruptcy and has agreed to sell the company.”
Near claimed location data on 1.6 billion people in 44 countries and went public via SPAC at a $1 billion valuation. It sold data to an anti-abortion group that targeted visitors at 600 Planned Parenthood clinics, and to the Department of Defense. Its privacy policy lists “Prospective buyers of our business” as data recipients. When the company dies, the data is the last asset left to sell.