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
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    11 months 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.

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      11 months 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.

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        11 months 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

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          11 months 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.

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            11 months ago

            Well when the governments around the world give them that power when they want them to push their agenda’s all the time, can’t really blame them for acting like the de-facto government they’ve become, thanks to actual govt’s. Govt’s always operate above their own laws, that’s nothing new.

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      11 months ago

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

      Now you can check actual news instead of internet hive mind biased bullshit.