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.

  • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
    20·
    1 year ago

    Are Meta even committing to stop tracking when users pay? Or are they simply not showing targeted ads but still totally tracking?

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      Well considering if you actively avoid meta products for ethical reasons they still make a ghost profile of you made from photos people upload with you in it and contact lists of people who have you in their phone and allow meta full access to their shit for some reason, “just in case” you ever join Facebook. Fairly sure it’s then used to build a profile of you and your internet use to serve you ads and sell your tracking data. Fuck the modern day internet is just fucking rotten at the core. I’m not sure I answered your question but I think it gives you the gist

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      5·
      1 year ago

      I literally cant believe them. And would not pay a cent. Meanwhile I donate all the time to peertube, lemmy, mastodon, etc

    • MrOxiMoron@lemmy.world
      31·
      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
        8·
        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
            4·
            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.