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Is there a way to lookup data linked to your Advertising IDs? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm taking a class on data privacy at the moment, and it made me think it would be interesting to see exactly what kind of advertising data has been generated by services like Google \ YouTube \ Etc. Is there somewhere online that's easy to punch in an advertising ID & find that sort of data, or is that something you'd have to request from advertisers themselves? (AdSense etc?) Or maybe do the service providers (mentioned before) store that data?

Forgive my ignorance - still learning about this stuff!

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

We have an equivalent GDPR legislation that's mostly the same except the Tories carved out a few exemptions for the police (of course they did). Requesting your data, I believe, is still a thing though, and tbh I think you may have been able to do this under the 1998 data protection act. I may be misremembering though as I mentally threw that knowledge in the bin once GDPR came around.