Being tracked for personalized advertising by Meta– or pay up to €251.88 a year to retain the fundamental right to data protection - noyb files new GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdpr-complaint-against-meta-over-pay-or-okay
@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?
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 Simply , thank you (once again)
@noybeu Relevant arguments! (Plus we're cited )
See also https://iabeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/PUR-Modelle-bvdw_20231004-en.pdf 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...
@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 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? https://www.heise.de/news/Datenschutzkonferenz-erklaert-Pur-Abo-Modelle-grundsaetzlich-fuer-zulaessig-8261891.html