Met shared victim data with Facebook

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Revealed: Metropolitan police shared sensitive data about crime victims with Facebook
Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing for targeted advertising purposes

Britain’s biggest police force gathered sensitive data about people using its website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes and shared it with Facebook for targeted advertising, the Observer has found.

The data was collected by a tracking tool embedded in the website of the Metropolitan police and included records of browsing activity about people using a “secure” online form for victims and witnesses to report offences.

In one case, Facebook received a parcel of data when someone clicked a link to “securely and confidentially report rape or sexual assault” to the Met online. This included the sexual nature of the offence being reported, the time the page was viewed and a code denoting the person’s Facebook account ID.

 The testing last week found four police forces using the tool, including the Met. The others were Police Scotland, Norfolk Constabulary and Suffolk Constabulary.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/15/revealed-metropolitan-police-shared-sensitive-data-about-victims-with-facebook