I fail to see the surprise in any of this. Yandex is Google but Russian. Telemetry apps and advertising platforms collect all this data and more. I’m honestly surprised the categories they’ve picked are so manual, American equivalents have much more specific groups of interests and target demographics that seem to be generated automatically.
I’m disappointed this website doesn’t seem to have asked the Dutch DPA (https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/) for a response. Like the USA, Russia isn’t a country where you should be able to process any kind of information like this, so any app containing these trackers should be illegal within the EU as far as I understand. Unless they only do these analyses within Europe, of course, but I still have my doubts they can prove any kind of privacy guarantee with Russia being Russia.
I fail to see the surprise in any of this. Yandex is Google but Russian. Telemetry apps and advertising platforms collect all this data and more. I’m honestly surprised the categories they’ve picked are so manual, American equivalents have much more specific groups of interests and target demographics that seem to be generated automatically.
I’m disappointed this website doesn’t seem to have asked the Dutch DPA (https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/) for a response. Like the USA, Russia isn’t a country where you should be able to process any kind of information like this, so any app containing these trackers should be illegal within the EU as far as I understand. Unless they only do these analyses within Europe, of course, but I still have my doubts they can prove any kind of privacy guarantee with Russia being Russia.