“Of particular concern, the analysis showed that Google shared data with RuTarget about users browsing websites based in Ukraine.”
RuTarget landed on the sanctions list on February 24. Adalytics found close to 700 cases of Google feeding it user data after that, and the flow stopped on June 23, the day ProPublica called. Google says it blocked the company in March. Its own ad exchange kept broadcasting data about Ukrainians to a Sberbank subsidiary anyway, and Google won’t answer questions about it.