Earlier this month, the European Union’s chief data regulator said planned regulations to oversee the tech sector should be tightened further to ban targeted advertising based on tracking internet users’ online activity.
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), wrote that to ensure transparency and adequate data privacy, “additional safeguards” are needed to prevent possible harms from happening on online platforms. His critique comes in response to the European Commission’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a proposal published alongside the Digital Markets Act in December 2020.
