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Meta charges up to €251.88 per year to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR.

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[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where do they claim that?

The article from Facebook I found about the subscriptions is this one: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/

The only relevant thing I saw related to the topic was "while people are subscribed, their information will not be used for ads". It does not say that information will stop being collected. Just that it will not be used for ads.

So by all interpretations, there is in fact no suggestion that they will stop tracking paid users.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Safe to say that even if they did claim that they would stop, they probably wouldn’t. They’re like crackheads for peoples personal info. So fucking creepy

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meta has this dangerous mentality that they are above the law anyway, so whatever they say, until a government powerful enough to really make them pay steps up and shows them that they are in fact not above the law, they'll just fucking do whatever they fucking want.