Complaint filed by Max Schrems' campaign group Noyb, alleges Elon Musk's X breached EU's GDPR by micro ad targetting.
Elon Musk's X faces more legal trouble, after a digital rights group filed a complaint against it with the Dutch data protection authority.
Last month NOYB had also filed a complaint about a paid ad-free subscription being offered by Mark Zuckerburg's Meta Platforms - a move as Meta seeks to comply with new European privacy legislation.
Now NOYB is alleging in its new complaint that X is mining people's political and religious data in order to deliver them targetted adverts.
The complaint alleges that X showed Max Schrems an ad from the European Commission that promoted online content regulation to tackle child sexual abuse and the grooming of children online.
Now it had followed this up with a complaint against X. Complaint allegations.
The complaint could ultimately lead to a full-blown investigation under the European Union's General Data Protection, a strict EU privacy regulation passed by the bloc in 2016 - that came into force in 2018.
Under GDPR, firms can be fined up to 4 percent of their global annual revenues for breaches.
This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:13:05 +0000