Re:New study: The advertising industry is systematically bre...
by anonymousab on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:18PM
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And as mentioned above, the sharing aspect of those contacts is more or less void if the personal information sharing was implied to be required to use the service, and/or was not opt-in such that the option without opting in was not the prominent default.
That was my point. People sign contracts where they consent to sharing. The advertising industry is not breaking the law because they don't use the data that is necessary for the performance but they use the data that is voluntarily shared.