Facebook Isn’t Telling the Whole Story About Stopping Partnering With Data Brokers
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy on Facebook.”
What it didn’t mention was that the move is actually part of the company’s efforts to comply with the GDPR, the new EU data protection law going into effect in May, which imposes consent requirements that make using third-party data more difficult .
Source: Facebook Isn’t Telling the Whole Story About Its Decision to Stop Partnering With Data Brokers