Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission
by Shanti Das and Jon Ungoed-Thomas from Technology | The Guardian on (#6V5F2)
Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites
We didn't click consent' on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we'd been?
Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook's parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.
The information is then being used by Facebook's owner, Meta, to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites, the Observer can reveal.
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