The Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed the first-ever complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission under the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act against Google. The ICCL and EPIC alleged Google’s real-time bidding online advertising system sends “enormous quantities” of sensitive personal data to China. The complaint alleged Google CEO Sundar Pichai rejected calls to reform the RTB system in 2021.
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