{"id":250141,"date":"2026-05-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:10:17","slug":"uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber, Meta Make it Hard for Users to Stop Data Sales, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says\">Uber, Meta Make it Hard for Users to Stop Data Sales, Study Says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI Inc., Tinder, Palantir Technologies Inc., and more than thirty other digital companies make it difficult for users to control what happens to their personal data, a privacy advocate\u2019s report found.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Wednesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, found many online businesses created obstacles for consumers who want to exercise their privacy rights by using confusing language, requiring users to pay a fee, or failing to provide clear options to opt out of the selling or sharing of personal information. The report analyzed the opt-out processes of 38 data broker, social media, and tech companies including &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber, Meta Make it Hard for Users to Stop Data Sales, Study Says https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/privacy-and-data-security\/uber-meta-make-it-hard-for-users-to-stop-data-sales-study-says Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bwrite-static.bloombergindustry.com\/dims4\/default\/ff08a14\/2147483647\/strip\/false\/crop\/3993x1539+3+151\/resize\/960x370!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fb8%2F8c%2Fae9a2f2a483686883ee3d85f0a89%2F448901372.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250143,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250141\/revisions\/250143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}