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Email addresses
Acxiom: [email protected]
Criteo: [email protected]
Equifax: [email protected]
Experian: [email protected]
Oracle: https://oracle.ethicspointvp.com/custom/oracle/dp/en/form_data.asp
Quantcast: [email protected] cc: [email protected]
Tapad: [email protected]
Letter for Acxiom and Oracle
subject line: Right to Erasure Request
I am concerned your company exploits my data.
In accordance with my right[s] under the General Data…
Content type: News & Analysis
Our team wanted to see how data companies that are not used to being in the public spotlight would respond to people exercising their data rights. You have the right under the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") to demand that companies operating in the European Union (either because they are based here or target their products or services to individuals in the EU) delete your data within one month. We wrote to seven companies and requested that they delete our data, and we've made…
Content type: Press release
Today, Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data brokers (Acxiom, Oracle), ad-tech companies (Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad), and credit referencing agencies (Equifax, Experian) with data protection authorities in France, Ireland, and the UK. Privacy International urges the data protection authorities to investigate these companies and to protect individuals from the mass exploitation of their data.
Our complaints target companies that, despite exploiting the data of millions of…
Content type: Advocacy
Today, Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data brokers (Acxiom, Oracle), ad-tech companies (Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad), and credit referencing agencies (Equifax, Experian) with data protection authorities in France, Ireland, and the UK.
It’s been more than five months since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. Fundamentally, the GDPR strengthens rights of individuals with regard to the protection of their data, imposes more…
Content type: News & Analysis
While the worlds’ attention, the world’s humour, including a dedicated playlist of 89 songs on Spotify, were on the coming into force of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25th May, the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) that received Royal Assent only two days previously had barely received a few column inches in the mainstream press.
However, the substance of the debates in parliament during the passage of this Act has received wide…
Content type: Press release
Tomaso Falchetta, PI's Head of Advocacy and Policy team said:
"The adoption of the Data Protection Act represents an important reform which strengthens the rights of individuals and increases obligations for the industry. The Act opens the way for the application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation in the UK, and regulates the processing of personal data by companies, public authorities, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies. PI particularly welcome increased powers for the…
Content type: Press release
Today, as the Data Protection Bill reaches its final stages, Privacy International has written to the leaders of the main UK political parties asking for public commitment to not use the exemption provided in the Bill to target voters - both online and offline - in all local and national forthcoming elections or by-elections.
Privacy International has long been concerned about the exploitation of peoples’ data and the opaque data ecosystem, and the impact of such practices on the democratic…
Content type: Advocacy
Privacy International's briefing on the UK's Data Protection Bill for the second reading in the House of Commons.
Content type: News & Analysis
This post was written by Chair Emeritus of PI’s Board of Trustees, Anna Fielder.
The UK Data Protection Bill is currently making its way through the genteel debates of the House of Lords. We at Privacy International welcome its stated intent to provide a holistic regime for the protection of personal information and to set the “gold standard on data protection”. To make that promise a reality, one of the commitments in this government’s ‘statement of intent’ was to enhance…