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Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook's parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Facebook collects data from various sites and doesn't care if you are a user or not.

How can you get a consent from someone who doesn't even know facebook collects data from?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the funny thing. You don't. It has to be informed consent. ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Which makes Meta’s entire business illegal in the EU, thus the lawsuits and bans

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