By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --It may be little consolation for the movie academy, but a more complete count by the Nielsen company pushed the Academy Awards audience to 10.4 million viewers on Tuesday.
A day earlier, Nielsen's preliminary estimate had Sunday's show at 9.85 million viewers. Either way, it's a record low for an event that not too long ago routinely reached more than 30 million people.
The Oscars were enough to give ABC a victory in the primetime ratings with an average of 4.1 million viewers last week. CBS had 3.8 million, NBC had 3.5 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.03 million, Ion Television had 970,000 and the CW had 530,000.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks with an average of 2.23 million viewers. MSNBC had 1.45 million, HGTV had 1.29 million, TNT had 1.15 million and ESPN had 1.1 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news race by averaging 8.1 million viewers last week. NBC's "Nightly News" had 6.5 million viewers and the "CBS Evening News" had 4.9 million.
For the week of April 19-25, the 20 most-watched programs in primetime, their networks and viewerships:
1. "The Oscars," ABC, 10.4 million.
2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.19 million.
3. "Chicago Med," NBC, 7.15 million.
4. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.01 million.
5. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.93 million.
6. "The Voice," NBC, 6.42 million.
7. "NCIS," CBS, 6.36 million.
8. "911," Fox, 6.25 million.
9. "Chicago PD," NBC, 5.89 million.
10. "FBI," CBS, 5.71 million.
11. "911: Lone Star," Fox, 5.49 million.
12. "United States of Al," CBS, 5.37 million.
13. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 5.11 million.
14. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 5.08 million.
15. "Mom," CBS, 5.04 million.
16. "Bob Hearts Abishola," CBS, 4.93 million.
17. "Oscars: Into the Spotlight," ABC, 4.84 million.
18. "Gray's Anatomy," ABC, 4.81 million.
19. "Bull," CBS, 4.69 million.
20. "Situation Room: Chauvin Verdict," CNN, 4.69 million.
Austrian activist wins privacy/targeted advertising case against Meta over personal data on sexual orientation
The European Union's top court said Friday that social media company Meta can't use public information about a user's sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc's strict data privacy rules.
The decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg is a victory for Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, who has been a thorn in the side of Big Tech companies over their compliance with 27-nation bloc's data privacy rules.
The EU court issued its ruling after Austria's supreme court asked for guidance in Schrems' case on how to apply the privacy rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Schrems had complained that Facebook had processed personal data including information about his sexual orientation to target him with online advertising, even though he had never disclosed on his account that he was gay. The only time he had publicly revealed this fact was during a panel discussion.
"An online social network such as Facebook cannot use all of the personal data obtained for the purposes of targeted advertising, without restriction as to time and without distinction as to type of data," the court said in a press release summarizing its decision.
Even though Schrems revealed he was gay in the panel discussion, that "does not authorise the operator of an online social network platform to process other data relating to his sexual orientation, obtained, as the case may be, outside that platform, with a view to aggregating and analysing those data, in order to offer him personalised advertising."
Meta said it was awaiting publication of the court's full judgment and that it "takes privacy very seriously."
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