Stop Stalker Ads
Your personal data is being auctioned off to online advertisers through AdTech systems, putting profits over privacy.
Hands in the cookie jar
Companies use Real-Time Bidding systems to gain access to your data for targeted advertising. From highest to lowest bidder, your data is harvested and combined with other datasets to build a profile about you. Even if the company doesn’t win the bid to show you their advert.
Everything from your geolocation, political beliefs and sexual preferences to your browsing habits and information about your devices come under the hammer.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) grants individuals powerful data rights, including the right to retrieve, delete or revoke consent for the personal data companies hold.
When RTB systems broadcast your personal data to thousands of faceless companies, your data rights become impossible to use.
How they steal your most intimate personal information
We want to end the widespread and systemic abuses of our privacy rights by the advertising industry.
Watch nowOpt-out of Targeted Advertising on Meta
In March 2025 Meta settled a four year court case with human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll. She had taken legal action to force the social media giant to stop collecting and processing her personal data for advertising purposes. Meta have agreed to stop profiling Tanya – and now it’s your turn to say no to stalker ads!
If you use any Meta products – Facebook, Instagram, Meta Quest or VR, Threads or WhatsApp – you can use our tool to request that they no longer collect or process your data for advertising. Click the banner below.
ORG’s Complaint Against LiveRamp
Open Rights Group has submitted complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) about LiveRamp, an online advertising and data broking company. The complaints were submitted on behalf of Jim Killock, ORG Executive Director, as well as French digital rights activists Noémie Levain and Benoît Piédallu.
ORG complains to regulators over liveramp adtech systems
LiveRamp exposes people to privacy-invasive profiling that combines online and offline identifiers
Find out morePervasive identity surveillance for marketing purposes
A report commissioned by ORG on personal data processing for LiveRamp’s RampID identity graph system
Find out moreORG’s complaint against Google and IAB
In 2018 ORG’s Executive Director Jim Killock joined Dr. Johnny Ryan of Brave and Michael Veale of University College London in a joint complaint against Google and IAB. These companies provide what’s known as the framework for authorised buyers that AdTech companies operate within.
IAB cookie consent banners ruled illegal
IAB failed to ensure the security, legality, transparency, accountability and privacy design of their system
Find out moreORG’s IAB adtech challenge: the full story
The challenge to surveillance advertising and the widespread illegality in the field of online advertising
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