The proposed legislation prohibits "advertising facilitators"- firms that publish advertisements- from disseminating or enabling the dissemination of ads targeted with information such as lists of individuals or specific devices, contact information of individuals, unique identifiers or "other personal information that can be used to identify an individual or a connected device." "Banning surveillance advertising will protect individual privacy, reduce corporate incentives to maximize invasive data collection, and spur innovation by unleashing the potential of the digital contextual advertising sector that has been held back by the dominant surveillance advertising platforms.” A coalition of digital rights organizations and privacy-oriented companies-- similar to the group backing the…