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Meta's AdTech model for Facebook under scrutiny in new UK lawsuit (update*)

By Matthew Newman
  • 21 Nov 2022 17:45
  • 21 Nov 2022 18:09
Facebook’s advertising model is under scrutiny in a UK lawsuit filed by a human rights campaigner claiming that the platform “thwarts” her efforts not to be surveilled for personal data used for targeted ads.

Human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll said that the social-media company's owner, Meta Platforms, has repeatedly refused t

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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