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Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

wrd.cmGoogle Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic DiseasesGoogle enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

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Display & Video 360 (DV360), one of the dominant marketing platforms offered by Google, is offering companies globally the option of targeting devices in the United States based on lists of internet users believed to suffer from chronic illnesses and financial distress.

wired.comGoogle Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic DiseasesGoogle enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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First reviewed by WIRED, an internal spreadsheet obtained from a US-based data broker shows the DV360 platform currently hosting hundreds if not thousands of restricted or otherwise sensitive “audience segments.”

wired.comGoogle Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic DiseasesGoogle enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.
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The data—first obtained by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), reveals segments targeting hundreds of millions of device users based exclusively on health conditions, from chronic pain and menopause to, among others, fibromyalgia, psoriasis, arthritis, high cholesterol, and hypertension.

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“As with other demand-side platforms, advertisers are able to upload audience lists to Display & Video 360, based either on their own first-party data or from segment providers,” says Erica Walsh, a Google spokesperson.

lou
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This is probably old news by now but I'm 99% sure meta lets you do the same thing because I get a lot of Instagram ads clearly targeted to people with mental health issues. Including ketamine pills once???

Gabe KP
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I’m convinced Putin & Xi & their select American assets have micro-targeted the mentally ill using Google & Facebook. Targeting those predisposed to mental illness, people with anger management issues, paranoia, delusions of grandeur. That’s how we got Qanon & the Jan 6th attack on our Capitol.