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Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta

British consumers will be able to opt out of targeted online advertising after a campaigner’s victory in her landmark case against Meta. Tanya O’Carroll, 37, took Facebook’s parent company to court because it would not let her turn off the user profiling it uses to sell adverts. It inferred what films she watched, where she wanted to go on holiday, her shopping habits, the clothes she liked, her political sensibilities and health, relationship and family matters.

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