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

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.

  • MrOxiMoron@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    They claim to not track you then, but just to be sure I finally took the step and deleted both Facebook and Instagram.

    Kinda sucks, because those are the platformed I used mostly to keep informed about local events and businesses.

    • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
      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
        4·
        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
          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.