Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google

ronjor · Sep 12, 2018

Douglas Busvine September 12, 2018

The petitioners say they want to trigger an article in the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requiring an EU-wide investigation, making it a test case for a new European Data Protection Board created to give the privacy regime more teeth.
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guest · Jan 28, 2019

Privacy Groups Claim Online Ads Can Target Abuse Victims
January 27, 2019
https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-groups-claim-online-ads-can-target-abuse-victims/

New documents filed Monday with regulators in Poland, the UK, and Ireland claim that the way personal data is handled during the process of matching advertisements to ad slots does not comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, a strict set of consumer privacy rules that went into effect in May.

The documents focus on the categories that key players in the ad-tech industry have adopted to instantly match advertisers with appropriate users or content.
The advocacy groups, led by Brave, a privacy-focused browser that competes with Google, allege that over time, those labels can be linked to users and incorporated into profiles, through cookies and other technology that track a user’s web browsing.
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mirimir · Jan 28, 2019

Indeed, there are places where being labeled with some of those categories can get you killed.

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