In order to bypass the GDPR, Meta apparently plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach

The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is likely to agree to any way that Meta can bypass the GDPR. However, the company may also be able to use six words from a recent Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling to support its approach.

  • @Blackrook7
    2•8 months ago

    I think they collect and use your information even if you don’t use the site though. Isn’t that still true?

    • BenderOver
      1•8 months ago

      That is true. However, the only way they’d get that info is if you made it public to begin with.

      Like getting your cell phone number from a person’s contacts. You had to give that number out to begin with. You should have no expectation of privacy after that. Unless you specifically told your friend/whoever you gave it to, not to. Then that would be on them when they accepted the terms to the site, not the website itself.

      (I do want to reiterate that I don’t support what these kinds of companies do at all.)