Rejected petition Ban all political parties from using analytics to place untraceable ads online

This is a petition to amend electoral law to ban all UK political parties from using analytics firms to display individually-tailored untraceable ads online during electoral campaigns and future referenda. The ban should cover all social media platforms to avoid a repeat of Cambridge Analytica.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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We think this petition is similar:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/258124

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 September 2019
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