arguing that it’s not real consent if the only alternative is shelling out yet another monthly subscription fee
Very true, and hopefully many other verdicts will follow, like "It’s not real consent if…this or that.
This dark pattern has started to spread everywhere already.
“Nice data you got there. Be a shame if someone sold that for a premium”
Please pull out of EU, it will be so much easier to convince more of my family to use signal.
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Even if they comply, I’d rather not have to use WhatsApp
They keep throwing around threats of leaving.
Do it… do it you absolute chickens.
Leaving the EU could be an option.
Following the laws another.
Apparently not.
Until the EU don’t use the same tactic: follow the law or get out.
And what Meta is not understanding is that if the EU will arrive at this point, the “follow the law” will be as pedantic as it can be. And maybe even a little more.
Meta should learn from what happened during the Brexit’s negotiations.
I hope you’re right, but the EU hasn’t had many overwhelming successes when it comes to pushing that particular boulder up the hill.
Well, the micro-USB and USB-C or the GDPR examples are here. Maybe is a little more difficult with services since it is way faster to change a service then a law.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!
Meta seemed to think that was a threat that would get the EU to cave to their demands and the regulators’ response was basically
Max Schrems, the Austrian activist lawyer whose 13-year legal crusade against Meta is what gradually removed those options
I wonder, does anyone know how would one go about acomplishing something like this? One of major websites here in Czech, and a major search engine, has started doing exactly the same thing - pay or agree. And I really don’t like that. Are there organizations you can contact, or do you have to have the resources to just sue them?
What’s really unhinged is the amount of resources invested into gaslighting Meta does. https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/investing-in-privacy/
They even have a “Chief Privacy Officer”. They have brainwashed entire departments into believing that Meta actually cares about privacy, it’s so terrifying. I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.
They probably don’t care as long as they get paid so they can live and survive in this boring dystopia
Prior to joining Meta, she was a partner working on technology issues and co-chair of Covington & Burling’s global data practice. Erin collaborates with policymakers and experts on Meta’s products and features and is deeply involved in legislative and regulatory efforts around data protection, data portability, advertising, and Al.
E.g. ex lawyer working for a firm that ensured companies could sell and use as much data as possible and defended them if they got sued or fined. Now in charge of “Privacy,” e.g. making sure Meta can sell and use as much private data as possible. It’s literal doublespeak
It’s just a Privacy Marketplace Officer
McDonalds sells salads too
I wonder if people working there realize that, or they have simply fell for the gaslighting.
Or they’re just like everyone else and are desperate for money to live so they sell their souls.
The more college debt a person has, the more malleable they are.
Step 1: Be born not in 'murica
Step 2: Get higher education
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit
I wouldn’t doubt that the CPO is trying their hardest to convince people to care but people just dont
This is great!
I wonder how many € I can rent an EU citizenship for ;-)
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