{"id":17673,"date":"2025-02-09T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T08:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/revealed-gambling-firms-secretly-sharing-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T08:39:18","slug":"revealed-gambling-firms-secretly-sharing-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/revealed-gambling-firms-secretly-sharing-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users\u2019 data with Facebook without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/08\/we-didnt-click-consent-on-any-gambling-website-so-how-did-facebook-know-where-wed-been\">We didn\u2019t click \u2018consent\u2019 on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we\u2019d been?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook\u2019s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.<\/p>\n<p>The information is then being used by Facebook\u2019s owner, Meta, to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites, the <em>Observer <\/em>can reveal. A hidden tracking tool embedded in dozens of UK gambling websites has been extracting visitors\u2019 data \u2013 including details of the webpages they view and the buttons they click \u2013 and sharing it with the social media company.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/feb\/08\/gambling-firms-secretly-shared-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/84987c979570b97801689a800e79a118616c2202\/0_4_2480_1488\/master\/2480.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9e8e3ec8fc920c23e8e75ffa4543eeee\" title=\"Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users\u2019 data with Facebook without permission\" \/>Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sitesWe didn\u2019t click \u2018consent\u2019 on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we\u2019d been?<\/p>\n<p>Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook\u2019s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.<br \/>\nThe information is then being used by Facebook\u2019s owner, Meta, to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites, the Observer can reveal. A hidden tracking tool embedded in dozens of UK gambling websites has been extracting visitors\u2019 data \u2013 including details of the webpages they view and the buttons they click \u2013 and sharing it with the social media company. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta accounts of those affected flooded with ads for casinos and betting sites We didn\u2019t click \u2018consent\u2019 on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we\u2019d been? Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook\u2019s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/revealed-gambling-firms-secretly-sharing-users-data-with-facebook-without-permission\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users\u2019 data with Facebook without permission<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}