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

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You would have to request that data, and only the EU really has rules that allow for that.

In the US, asking for this kind of information basically results in "We don't care, you're not getting that data."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I expect there’s a price attached to this data in the US though? Which organization/business is already paying for this is the question.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google is not about to sell this data to anyone, the data is the money maker. They sell ads that are targeted based on the data - if they sell the data, they automatically lose their edge.

[–] humorlessrepost 10 points 9 months ago

They won’t sell it to competitors or to OP. They’ll happily sell it to the NSA.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this also apply to the UK? In the EU, do you simply make a GDPR request, or what?

[–] 9point6 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.