PlayStation uses cookies, tracking pixels, and embedded scripts to log your activity across its websites and marketing communications, and may share data derived from this tracking with advertising and analytics partners.
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This tracking infrastructure supports targeted advertising, and under CPRA, sharing personal information with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising constitutes 'sharing' that California residents have the right to opt out of.
Your browsing behavior on PlayStation websites and interactions with marketing emails may be tracked and shared with advertising partners, which can result in targeted advertising based on your PlayStation activity across third-party websites and services.
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We will also provide an individual opt-out choice, or opt-in for sensitive data, before we share your data with third parties other than our agents, or before we use it for a purpose other than which it was originally collected.
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"We may also automatically log your activity on web, emails, or advertising and marketing servers we control through cookies (small information files placed on a hard drive), web beacons, tracking pixels, browser configuration details (e.g. browser type, list of installed plugins and list of installed fonts), and embedded scripts (programming code that is temporarily downloaded onto a device).Excerpt from Sony PlayStation's PlayStation Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages the CPRA's definition of 'sharing' personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, which triggers opt-out rights for California residents distinct from the right to opt out of 'sale.' The FTC …
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This tracking infrastructure supports targeted advertising, and under CPRA, sharing personal information with advertising partners for cross-context behavioral advertising constitutes 'sharing' that California residents have the right to opt out of.
Your browsing behavior on PlayStation websites and interactions with marketing emails may be tracked and shared with advertising partners, which can result in targeted advertising based on your PlayStation activity across third-party websites and services.
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