Brave accuses Google of trampling Europe's GDPR with stealthy netizen-stalking adverts

Brave accuses Google of trampling Europe's GDPR with stealthy netizen-stalking adverts

Our ads? Stomping on people's privacy? Never! Not us! sobs search giant


Brave, the maker of a Chromium-based browser with a focus on privacy, claims advertising giant Google flouts Europe's data protection rules by effectively leaking netizens' web browsing activities to advertisers.


In an essay published on Wednesday, Brave's chief policy officer Johnny Ryan said Google’s Authorized Buyers real-time bidding (RTB) system – which is used by millions of websites to serve ads to visitors – "broadcasts personal data" about those visitors to thousands of ad-industry companies all day, every day.


Said data can be used to track netizens as they surf across the web, from site to site, in violation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GD ..

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