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Facebook, Google, Twitter: Upgrade Your Ad Archive API!

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29th August 2019
Facebook, Google, Twitter: Upgrade Your Ad Archive API!

On 28 August 2019 PI joined International Privacy Network partner Asociación por los Derechos Civiles and others in writing to the Directors of Public Policy for Latin America at Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The letters outline what steps are needed to make the social media giants' ad archives effective. Earlier this year organisations across Europe, led by the Mozilla, wrote to the companies with similar guidelines - the letters sent today say that equivalent steps should be taken for ad archive API in Latin America and the Caribbean. Full letters are linked below.

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Carta Facebook Biblioteca de Anuncios.pdf
Carta Google Ads API.pdf
Carta Twitter API Ad.pdf
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