EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X | TechCrunch

Not-for-profit noyb is filing complaint against EU Commissi European Union targeting of Twitter ads.

Complaint is filed with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) which oversees EU institutions’ compliance with the bloc’s data protection laws the EU Commission’s so considering filing a complaint against X for providing tools tha today bled EU the European Data Protection Supervisor s EDPS ted to political o EU nions and religious beliefs.

The EU Commission has no legal basis to process sensitive data for targeted advertising on X, says noyb.

X claims to proh Commission se of sensitive data but doesn’t do anything to actually enforce this ban.

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