Part of this seemingly aggressive attempt at chat control is a targeted advertising campaign on the site formerly known as Facebook aimed at influencing public opinion. is not illegal the European Commission targets users based on their political views and religious beliefs. In particular, these ads are only shown to users who are not interested in keywords such as or. The European Commission has previously expressed concerns about the Email Marketing List use of personal data for micro-targeting and described the practice as a serious threat to fair democratic electoral processes. Misleading polls. A post seen by a Dutch complainant claimed that Dutch people who found online child abuse were more important than or as important as their rights to online privacy. Media reports indicate these statistics are misleading.
They are based solely on polls conducted by the the negative impact of chat control mechanisms. Complaints to the European Commission. The commission's advertising campaign was even flagged as misleading and breached European data protection law. Although people's political opinions and religious beliefs are specifically protected by the EU these specific categories of data are still used in advertising campaigns. A complaint against the European Commission has now been lodged with the European data protection regulator and is currently being assessed for micro-political targeting of enabling the illegal use of sensitive data.