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investigation by the irish data protection commission dpc for suspected infringement of the gdpr as a result of a formal complaint by brave s chief policy industry relations officer dr johnny ryan the irish dpc is google s primary gdpr regulator new evidence gathered by brave gives the irish dpc concrete proof that google s ad system did broadcast personal data about dr ryan which infringed the gdpr in addition brave has uncovered what appears to be a gdpr workaround that circumvents google s own publicly stated gdpr data safeguards google s doubleclick authorized buyers ad system is active on 8 4 million websites it broadcasts personal data about visitors to these sites to 2 000 companies hundreds of billions of times a day said dr johnny ryan of brave the evidence we have submitted to the irish data protection commission proves that google leaked my protected data to an unknown number of companies one cannot know what these companies then did with it because google loses control over my data once it was sent its policies are no protection google s gdpr workaround the new evidence reveals a surreptitious mechanism that raises additional data protection concerns about google s doubleclick authorized buyers advertising system this system is active on 8 4 million websites 1 google claims to prevent the many companies that use its real time bidding ad rtb system who receive sensitive data about website visitors from combining their profiles about those visitors 2 it also announced that it had stopped sharing pseudonymous identifiers that could help these companies more easily identify an individual apparently in response to the advent of the gdpr 3 but in fact brave s new evidence reveals that google allowed not only one additional party but many to match with google identifiers the evidence further reveals that google allowed multiple parties to match their identifiers for the data subject with each other brave commissioned zach edwards to analyze a log of dr ryan s web browsing the analysis confirmed that dr ryan s personal data was broadcast confirming the fears laid out in his complaint to the dpc in september 2018 the analysis also revealed a mechanism push pages through which google invites multiple companies to share profile identifiers about a person when they load a web page google push pages are served from a google domain https pagead2 googlesyndication com and all have the same name cookie_push html each push page is made distinctive by a code of almost two thousand characters which google adds at the end to uniquely identify the person that google is sharing information about this combined with other cookies supplied by google allows companies to pseudonymously identify the person in circumstances where this would not otherwise be possible all companies that google invites to access a push page receive the same identifier for the person being profiled this google_push identifier allows them to cross reference their profiles of the person and they can then trade profile data with each other the push pages are not shown to the person visiting a web page and will display no content if accessed directly you can download a sample push page here the evidence includes a network log of all items including web pages and their component parts files etc that dr ryan s device was instructed to load by the web sites that he visited analysis of the network log shows that the data subject s personal data has been processed in google s authorized buyers rtb system it further shows that google has also facilitated the sharing of personal data about the data subject between other companies push pages therefore appear to be a workaround of google s own stated policies for how rtb should operate under the gdpr download the explanatory note submitted with the evidence to the irish data protection commission you can also download a sequence chart of the rtb and push page process here real time bidding in its current form is toxic the speed and scale of the broadcast is incapable of complying with the gdpr s security principle said ravi naik a data rights solicitor who is acting for dr ryan and brave now our client finds seemingly clandestine profile matching by google deceptive and uncontrolled profile matching is the antithesis of the fairness and transparency principles of data protection unfortunately the lawlessness at the heart of adtech has begat a culture of data exploitation above data protection the dpc must act fast to put an end to such practices brave s evidence shows that google s push page mechanism undermines google s purported data protection measures they are also vulnerable to abuse by other parties we are aware that companies other than google have used the push page mechanism to establish their own push pages to share data with their own business partners this appears to happen without google s knowledge the loss of control over personal data in google s rtb system is again evident and it is clear that google s policies have provided no protection brave s 12 month campaign to put the rtb data breach on the agenda 12 months ago in september 2018 brave revealed a massive and ongoing data breach in which google s and others rtb ad systems leak the online habits of billions of internet users now brave s work to reform the multi billion dollar rtb industry spans sixteen eu countries in collaboration with privacy ngos academics and others the primary targets of this campaign are google and the iab which control the rtb system brave s submissions and expert evidence to regulators have triggered a statutory investigation into suspected infringement of the gdpr by google s rtb ad system by the irish data protection commission and a report and warning from the uk information commissioner twelve months ago i first complained to the irish data protection commission about this said dr ryan of brave i hope that the dpc will accelerate its work to stop this enormous and ongoing data breach every time a person visits a website that uses rtb data about them is broadcast to tens or hundreds of tracking companies who let advertisers compete for the opportunity to show them an ad the data can include the category of what they are reading which can reveal their sexual orientation 4 political views 5 their religion 6 and health conditions including aids 7 stds 8 and depression 9 it includes what the person is reading watching and listening to it includes their location and it includes unique pseudonymous id codes that are specific to that person 10 so that all of this data can be tied to you continually over time this allows companies who the average internet user has never heard of to build and trade intimate profiles about them and what makes them tick this happens hundreds of billions of times a day google has no control over what happens to these data once broadcast its policy requires only that the thousands of companies that google shares peoples sensitive data with monitor their own compliance and judge for themselves what they should do 11 key facts google doubleclick authorized buyers is installed on 8 4 million websites 12 it broadcasts personal data about visitors to these sites to 2 000 companies hundreds of billions of times a day 13 the data can include people s locations inferred religious sexual political characteristics and what they are reading watching and listening to online 14 there is no control over what happens to the data once broadcast 15 this appears to be by far the largest leakage of personal data ever recorded google s sole means of protecting rtb data once broadcast is a weak policy that asks the thousands of companies it shares data with to self regulate 16 the campaign for gdpr action to fix the google and iab real time bidding system now includes brave the open rights group dr michael veale of the turing institute the panoptykon foundation bits of freedom eticas foundation exigo dr jef ausloos of the university of amsterdam pierre dewitte of the university of leuven liberties eu the society for civil rights digitale courage digitale gesellschaft netzwerk datenschutzexpertise deutsche vereinigung für datenschutz the italian coalition for civil rights and freedoms the bulgarian helsinki committee the association for the defense of human rights in romania the italian coalition for civil rights and freedoms the estonian human rights centre the peace institute what the gdpr says gdpr article 5 paragraph 1 point f of the gdpr requires that personal data be tightly controlled personal data shall be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss destruction or damage using appropriate technical or organisational measures integrity and confidentiality article 5 paragraph 1 point a and point b of the gdpr require that individuals be adequately informed about what will happen to their data personal data shall be processed lawfully fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject lawfulness fairness and transparency personal data shall be collected for specified explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall in accordance with article 89 1 not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes purpose limitation the irish data protection commission is now investigating google s suspected infringement of the gdpr under section 110 of the irish data protection act google may be forced to stop processing all personal data for its doubleclick authorized buyers ad business and may be fined up to 4 of global turnover thank you thanks to zach edwards of metax and to luke mulks and jimmy secretan at brave special thanks to our colleagues in the campaign to reform rtb the open rights group dr michael veale of the turing institute the panoptykon foundation bits of freedom eticas foundation exigo dr jef ausloos of the university of amsterdam pierre dewitte of the university of leuven liberties eu the society for civil rights digitale courage digitale gesellschaft netzwerk datenschutzexpertise deutsche vereinigung für datenschutz the italian coalition for civil rights and freedoms the bulgarian helsinki committee the association for the defense of human rights in romania the italian coalition for civil rights and freedoms the estonian human rights centre the peace institute notes 1 doubleclick net usage statistics buildwith url https trends builtwith com ads doubleclick net 2 google claims to prohibit companies from joining their match tables in cookie matching authorized buyers 25 june 2019 url https developers google com authorized buyers rtb cookie guide 3 google announced that it had removed encrypted cookie ids from rtb bid 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