While you might think you’re hitting the jackpot, whether you’ve consented to it or not, online gambling sites are playing with your data. Users’ data, including details of webpages they visited and buttons they clicked, are being shared with Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
The Observer reports that over 150 UK gambling websites have been extracting visitor data through a hidden embedded tracking tool, and then sending that data to Meta in order to profile people as gamblers and flood them with Facebook ads for casinos and betting sites. The gambling websites used and shared data for marketing purposes—without obtaining explicit permission from the users—in an apparent breach of data protection laws.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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