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It is, and that is why the company took action:

> After being confronted with this research, Stichting 113 temporarily suspended all measurement and analysis tools on its website.

It does not mean that this cannot happen, but the regulatory framework helps stop it.

I guess it didn't help enough to stop them from doing it in the first place--it just helped them stop once they were caught. Sure, it's a step up from other places where there is literally no consequence for this kind of sharing.

They are not mining the data profit; they are mining the data for managing their website.

Google is mining the data for profit and bartering with websites like this to get it.

Europe is more careful. But people will break the law.

People make mistakes.

This is a rare circumstance where I would actually assume incompetence vs malice. (Unlike big tech, which has weaponized good will)

I would hope that anyone medical adjacent would be more deliberate in building a service, but I can easily imagine following the same ad-infested path as everyone else. “Start with this Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Draft Kings starter template that bundles leftpad so you can save time for the hard work”