Reply to post: Re: Elephant in the room ?

Chap asks Facebook for data on his web activity, Facebook says no, now watchdog's on the case

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Re: Elephant in the room ?

What if it's the third parties they sell it to doing the linking?

If you haven't given them permission to pass on your data, selling it / sharing it with third parties would be illegal*.

*This article is talking about the situation in Europe, so the answers also relate to EU law.

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