{"id":3697,"date":"2021-11-16T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/facebook-and-instagram-gathering-browsing-data-from-under-18s-study-says\/"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:50:26","slug":"facebook-and-instagram-gathering-browsing-data-from-under-18s-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/facebook-and-instagram-gathering-browsing-data-from-under-18s-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Instagram gathering browsing data from under-18s, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parent company Meta denies data being used to target young users with ads based on their browsing activity<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and Instagram are gathering data from under-18s by using software that tracks users\u2019 web browsing activity, according to research.<\/p>\n<p>The platforms\u2019 parent company had announced in July that it would allow advertisers to target young users based on three categories only \u2013 age, gender and location \u2013 rather than a range of options including their personal interests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/16\/facebook-and-instagram-gathering-browsing-data-from-under-18s-study-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2171252598b468c704ebead0a9ad3fe83d4f0ae0\/0_195_5945_3566\/master\/5945.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9002d7ae41eca672c4f02bd1ecdf70c8\" title=\"Facebook and Instagram gathering browsing data from under-18s, study says\" \/>Parent company Meta denies data being used to target young users with ads based on their browsing activity<br \/>\nFacebook and Instagram are gathering data from under-18s by using software that tracks users\u2019 web browsing activity, according to research.<br \/>\nThe platforms\u2019 parent company had announced in July that it would allow advertisers to target young users based on three categories only \u2013 age, gender and location \u2013 rather than a range of options including their personal interests. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parent company Meta denies data being used to target young users with ads based on their browsing activity Facebook and Instagram are gathering data from under-18s by using software that tracks users\u2019 web browsing activity, according to research. The platforms\u2019 parent company had announced in July that it would allow advertisers to target young users &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/facebook-and-instagram-gathering-browsing-data-from-under-18s-study-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook and Instagram gathering browsing data from under-18s, study says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3698,"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\/3697"}],"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=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}