GDPR Complaints Filed Against Acxiom, Oracle And Credit Bureaus

Privacy International has filed complaints against seven data providers and ad-tech companies, asking European data-protection authorities to investigate their activities and determine whether they are in compliance with GDPR.  The firms being investigated are Acxiom, Oracle, Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad, Equifax and Experian.Together these companies profit from the exploitation of the personal data of millions of people in the UK, in the rest of the European Union and further afield, the group contends in one of three complaints filed with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office.Complaints were also submitted to data authorities in Ireland and France.In its complaints, the group relies heavily on descriptions on the companies’ own web sites and in other materials. It also has submitted data access requests to the companies, as allowed under GDPR.