Profiling
Profiling is an automated method that involves creating a separate profile for each visitor. This profile contains a visitor’s interests, behaviour, and other attributes.
Profiling involves tracking and recording online user behavior for the purpose of producing targeted advertising.
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June 8, 2022
Is Google Analytics illegal in the EU?
At the beginning of 2022, the media were full of articles with really alarming headlines: "Is Google Analytics about to be banned in the EU?", "Is Google Analytics legal?", "GA declared illegal!", "Google Analytics faces EU-wide ban".What set this off?The European Center for Digital Rights (NOYB), based on the 2020 ruling called Schrems II, filed […]
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June 7, 2022
Cory Underwood: US businesses are interested in how the changes in privacy laws in Europe affect the larger ecosystem for data collection
Maciej Zawadziński: The topic of online privacy is broadly discussed on both sides of the Atlantic. But do the US and the EU understand this notion in the same way? Cory Underwood, Platform Engineer at Search Discovery: From a legal standpoint, they don’t. The definitions of personal data differ not only between the US and […]
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