Meta's practices also collected protected data like race, religion, and sexual orientation. Meta disputed that it needed explicit consent, arguing that agreeing to terms of service was enough, but courts rejected this.

Oh please let this be the beginning of a global backlash against corporate EULA's and the start of a path towards a few well understood EULA's, similar to how we have a few well understood FOSS licenses.

Cool

[chuckles evilly in Norwegian]

This is awesome but I don't really understand.

The purported issue is that they don't have explicit consent for some data points. They apparently responded by saying they were going to charge a subscription.

Why wouldn't they just get consent? I'm sure most fb users will just agree to anything put in front of them.

I'd just like to thank the EU for having the data privacy laws that I suspect most Americans want but can't have because of the fact our country is owned by corporations

They're already starting their paid ad-free $10 a month tiers for Europe only. They'll stop showing advertising to underage people "for now". They're going to flood Europe with garbage ads and maximize subscribers that way.

And Google? And Alphabet?

a targeted advertising ban would kill just about every social media platform

Nice. As someone who deals with compliance I know it's gonna be a huge pain for them to deal with, which makes it even better.

I will only believe it when I see it. It has been a few years since the EU is threatening a ban and meta threatening to leave the EU, so far none has committed any action.

Must be nice living in countries where the government works for humans instead of corporations.

I can't wait for Facebook to take the time and energy to make two different versions of their platform. One to adhere to the EU regulations, and the other for everyone else that harvests every last bit of data.

Oh, no, boo hoo!

Lmao