{"id":1747650,"date":"2022-11-22T06:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747650"},"modified":"2022-11-22T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T12:33:21","slug":"technology-campaigner-sues-meta-in-london-high-court-over-facebook-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/technology-campaigner-sues-meta-in-london-high-court-over-facebook-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Campaigner Sues Meta in London High Court Over Facebook Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftechnology-campaigner-sues-meta-in-london-high-court-over-facebook-ads%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1747650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A technology campaigner is suing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-facebook\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s parent company Meta in the High Court in London over the social media giant\u2019s refusal to let users opt out of user profiling data it uses to sell adverts.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya O\u2019Carroll, 35, says she believes her legal challenge could lead to a landmark change to the rights of social media users.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Carroll, an independent consultant on technology and human rights, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d programme, \u201cThis case is really about us all being able to connect with social media on our own terms, and without having to essentially accept that we should be subjected to hugely invasive tracking surveillance profiling just to be able to access social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she became a mother in 2017 and noticed she was being \u201cbombarded\u201d with adverts for baby content.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Carroll said she tried to use her Facebook settings to switch off the incessant adverts but she remained inundated by them.<\/p>\n<p>She said Facebook had given her profile more than 700 characteristics\u2014based on content she had consumed\u2014several of which were \u201cprotected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Carroll told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/facebook-sued-for-collecting-personal-data-to-sell-adverts-zbtm5hc2p\">The Times of London<\/a>: \u201cHomosexuality was one of them. The name of a UK political party was one of them. Feminism was one of them. These are things that are actually just considered sensitive, protected characteristics, things that could reveal things about you that really an advertiser should not be seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Objection to \u2018Surveillance\u2019 by Facebook<\/h2>\n<p>She told the BBC, \u201cThis is where our daily politics, our access to news and information, public debate, as well as our ability to connect with family and friends, all play out and Facebook has made the condition for accessing that global public square that we all subject ourselves to surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, with this case, I\u2019m really using this right that\u2019s long been there on the law books, but has been up until now not been exercised, which is to simply say \u2018I object,\u2019 and if we are successful in that then everybody will have that right,\u201d said O\u2019Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>Meta has said it is changing its data collection software to exclude protected characteristics, but O\u2019Carroll is suing\u00a0on the basis of the European Union\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/do-you-have-a-right-to-be-forgotten-in-a-digital-world_2777833.html\">GDPR,<\/a>\u00a0or General Data Protection Regulation, legislation that gives individuals the right to object to their personal data being used for direct marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Meta denies GDPR applies to social media and says Facebook users agree to the use of their data being used in such a way when they accept the terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p><em>PA Media contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-chris-summers\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ttl7daypCS_WEB_ChrisSummers.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Summers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chris Summers is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of national stories, with a particular interest in crime, policing and the law. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technology campaigner is suing Facebook\u2019s parent company Meta in the High Court in London over the social media giant\u2019s refusal to let users opt out of user profiling data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}