noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay” - eviltoast

Meta charges up to €251.88 per year to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR.

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    Where do they claim that?

    The article from Facebook I found about the subscriptions is this one: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/

    The only relevant thing I saw related to the topic was “while people are subscribed, their information will not be used for ads”. It does not say that information will stop being collected. Just that it will not be used for ads.

    So by all interpretations, there is in fact no suggestion that they will stop tracking paid users.

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Safe to say that even if they did claim that they would stop, they probably wouldn’t. They’re like crackheads for peoples personal info. So fucking creepy

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        Meta has this dangerous mentality that they are above the law anyway, so whatever they say, until a government powerful enough to really make them pay steps up and shows them that they are in fact not above the law, they’ll just fucking do whatever they fucking want.