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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Shanti Das Home affairs correspondent

FOUND: Reform uk tracked private user information without consent - What They Never Told You

Nigel Farage checking his phone
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, whose party has removed the tracking tool after being contacted for comment. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

A hidden tracking tool in the website for Reform UK collected private browsing data about potentially millions of people, often without consent, and shared it with Facebook for use in targeted advertising.

An Observer investigation has found that people visiting the website for Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration party had details of their activity captured by a digital surveillance tool known as a Meta pixel.

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