Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: Time to sue #Meta and its above-the-law surveillance empire - and maybe kick them out ...
Time to sue #Meta and its above-the-law surveillance empire - and maybe kick them out of my continent for good.
Under the #GDPR terms, consent for processing and selling personal data must be given freely.
Users must always be in control of their data and decide what they want to share, without paying fees for this freedom.
You can’t give users a choice between breaking the law (by taking away the possibility of choosing what can be shared), or asking users to pay a premium for law compliance.
Just like thieves don’t get contracts along the lines “you can steal from these shops, and if shop owners want to keep you away from their goods then they have to pay an antitheft fee”.
Meta’s “privacy tax” is just like Apple’s alleged “3rd-party store tax”: users are not supposed to give a single fuck about the “likely financial loss” that a business will go through if a regulating body finds their practices to be illegal and requires the business model to change.
Users aren’t supposed to pay out of their own pockets the delta between the company’s revenue with illegal practices in place, and the company’s revenue once it complies with the law.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/29/meta_gdpr_complaints/
Under the #GDPR terms, consent for processing and selling personal data must be given freely.
Users must always be in control of their data and decide what they want to share, without paying fees for this freedom.
You can’t give users a choice between breaking the law (by taking away the possibility of choosing what can be shared), or asking users to pay a premium for law compliance.
Just like thieves don’t get contracts along the lines “you can steal from these shops, and if shop owners want to keep you away from their goods then they have to pay an antitheft fee”.
Meta’s “privacy tax” is just like Apple’s alleged “3rd-party store tax”: users are not supposed to give a single fuck about the “likely financial loss” that a business will go through if a regulating body finds their practices to be illegal and requires the business model to change.
Users aren’t supposed to pay out of their own pockets the delta between the company’s revenue with illegal practices in place, and the company’s revenue once it complies with the law.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/29/meta_gdpr_complaints/