Tracking tools found on government and health websites
According to the BBC, online tools which track user behaviour for advertisers have been found on a swathe of EU public health websites, including the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) and gov.uk websites. The data protection compliance organisation behind this report, CookieBot, the tracking industry is continuing to systematically monitor the online activity of EU citizens despite the GDPR, often with the unintentional assistance by the very governments that should be regulating it.
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