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Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission
Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta
A hidden tracking tool embedded in dozens of UK gambling websites has been extracting visitors’ data – including details of the webpages they view and the buttons they click – and sharing it with the social media company. In September, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a reprimand to Bonne Terre Ltd, trading as Sky Betting & Gaming, for unlawfully processing people’s data through advertising cookies without their consent. As the Observer reported last week, in a separate case, Sky Betting & Gaming collected hundreds of thousands of pieces of data about a problem gambler who was sent more than 1,300 marketing emails.
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