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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ben Mitchell

Met Police ‘passed victims’ data to Facebook via online tracking tool’

Data about people using the Metropolitan Police’s website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes has been passed to Facebook, it has been reported.

The information, which included the type of offence being reported as well as a user’s Facebook profile code, was sent to the social media giant via a tracking tool called a Meta Pixel which was being used on the police force’s website.

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