X hit by complaints to EU over user data and targeted advertising
The organisations — AI Forensics, the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe, Entropy, European Digital Rights, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. (GFF), Global Witness, Panoptykon Foundation, Stichting Bits of Freedom and VoxPublic — said they took their complaint to the European Commission and the French media regulator Arcom on Monday.
They urged both regulators to take action under the Digital Services Act (DSA) which prohibits advertising based on sensitive user data such as religion, race and sexuality.
X, the commission and Arcom did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.
"We express our deep concern regarding the use by X of users' sensitive personal data for targeted advertisements," the organisations said in a statement.
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