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@noybeu Fantastic! Happy someone's picking this fight 👏

@noybeu Very curious to know the legal outcome of this Meta stunt 🤔

@noybeu from a legal standpoint, have there been any rulings that Facebook is a monopoly in EU?

@noybeu

Neither the law nor this complaint mention this directly, but the question is ultimately whether a business is allowed to demand a personal right as payment.

The GDPR simply demands a free choice for certain personal data at all times, as such, it defines when it can't be a contractual obligation or condition anymore - which answers the q.

Privacy is power (to self-determination & much more) so a democratic nation ought treasure it, even though it's such an abstract, subtle thing.

@noybeu Relevant arguments! (Plus we're cited 😎)
See also iabeurope.eu/wp-content/upload for other sources of incredibly high consent rates (IAB proudly reports between 94 and 99% ...)

@noybeu If my privacy is worth at least €250 a year, then that is also what my personal data is worth to THEM.

Good.

Now, all we need to do is figure out a way to sell this personal data ourselves to the companies who want it instead of third-party data-brokers like Google and Meta...

@shrikant yes, selling our data to the companies that would normally buy it from Facebook. So they get it from us directly

@shrikant but no. For me it's the whole business model that I don't like to support

@cedricdes I don't like it either and I've always been pretty vocal about it.

But if this wrests control of my data away from these sh*tty behemoths... 🤷‍♂️

@shrikant @noybeu
The article says that your data is worth about $12 a year. They're charging more because they are an advertising company, not a social media company.

@RnDanger Even better. Everybody should price their own data at $10/year per advertiser.

Bankrupting them will be a nice little bonus on top of the money. And since I control my data, I can (and will) shut the tap off after they are properly bankrupt - my very own bait-and-switch...

But these are all pipe-dreams, anyway.

We gave up any chance at consumer power the day we accepted tracking and surveillance as an acceptable cost for getting free stuff. Too late now...

@noybeu

@noybeu is there a chance that this will reverse the whole direction a conference (Konferenz der Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden des Bundes und der Länder (DSK) ) has kicked off by declaring this "legal" as if they were judges themselves? heise.de/news/Datenschutzkonfe

heise online · Datenschutzkonferenz erklärt "Pur-Abo-Modelle" grundsätzlich für zulässigBy Stefan Krempl