

“ Our findings show that councils are exposing the people of the UK to mass profiling.
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Greater London councils showing the number of data collectors embedded on each council website.UK Council Data Leaks Map showing the number of data collectors embedded on each council website in the UK.You'll need JavaScript enabled to view this. Use the Data Leaks Explorer tool to check the council in your local area. It is 17 months since formal evidence from Brave and complaints about breaches of data protection laws were filed before the ICO. This report should spur Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner, to finally enforce the GDPR.None of the data collecting companies recorded in this study had received consent from the website visitor to lawfully process data.Until recently, LiveRamp was part of the Acxiom Group, which sold data to Cambridge Analytica. 6.9 million people are served by councils that allow data broker LiveRamp to track people on their sites.


Though illegality is not in dispute, the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) has failed to act. Real-time bidding is the biggest data breach ever recorded in the UK. 198 council websites in the UK use the “real-time bidding” (RTB) form of advertising.People seeking information about disability, poverty, drugs and alcoholism services are profiled by data brokers on some council websites.Nearly all councils in the UK permit at least one company to learn about the behaviour of people visiting their websites.
