MEPs ask Commission to act after revelations of sensitive EU data sell-off

The initiative came after two reports by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) that revealed a trade in real-time bidding data on EU and US leaders and military personnel sent by Google and other firms to China and Russia.

The ICCL believes this is a “Cambridge Analytica style psychological profiling of target individuals,” with information about their movements, financial and mental health problems, vulnerabilities, and even if they were likely survivors of sexual abuse.

The reports also identified a surveillance tool called Patternz using the data of five billion people, including information about their driving routes and children.