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European banks inadvertently transmitted customer data to ad platforms via tracking pixels, raising serious compliance, security, and privacy concerns.
July 22, 2026
There's a pattern of financial institutions exposing customer data through cookie tracking technology, and these organizations may not even be aware of it.
Jscrambler published research today regarding how financial institutions in Europe and the US transmit sensitive information to third-party advertising, analytics, and personalization platforms, possibly without the banks' knowledge. Sometimes this happens before the user makes a consent choice, and other times it continues even after the user rejected tracking technologies.
