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EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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The EU's Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising.

In October last year, the social media giant said it would be possible to pay Meta to stop Instagram or Facebook feeds of personalized ads and prevent it from using personal data for marketing for users in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland. Meta then announced a subscription model of €9.99/month on the web or €12.99/month on iOS and Android for users who did not want their personal data used for targeted advertising.

At the time, Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb, said: "EU law requires that consent is the genuine free will of the user. Contrary to this law, Meta charges a 'privacy fee' of up to €250 per year if anyone dares to exercise their fundamental right to data protection."

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[+] IsThisAnAI -51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

The EU is clueless. They think they are going to bypass the advertising model and that users are going to pay hundreds of dollars for all the services. They will continue to fall behind the US and China and they don't have a plan. There is going to be backlash when news organization pull out just like Canada.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tfw your national strategic reserve of facebook posts is depleted

[+] IsThisAnAI -14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It'll be a service useful to you some day 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

what scenario are you imagining where any of meta's product offerings are useful to me?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I always thought Facebook was useful to me. Until one day I decided to stop. A week later I deleted my account.
Turns out Facebook wasn't useful to me.
And I can't see a future where it will be.

WhatsApp is currently useful to me.
And considering EUs current ruling, I imagine there will be WhatsApp compatible apps soon. Besides, if meta leaves the EU, everyone will move to telegram or signal or whatever.

So no, I don't think it will be useful to me one day. And I'd be quite happy to see it go

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