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The EU does not allow you to trade away your privacy rights in exchange for free goods or services.
by webloem 2y ago
The EU does not allow you to trade away your privacy rights in exchange for free goods or services.
- curiousllama 2y agoIt 100% does allow exactly that https://www.spiegel.de/ https://www.spiegel.de/
- ApolloFortyNine 2y agoYea that user is just wrong, is though this opinion from the privacy board (who knows if it matters at all) is that pay or consent should be illegal.
- x0x0 2y agoIt is not. It is limited to the context of Large Online Platforms, as defined (iirc) in the DSA. I believe the edpb will later publish guidelines on consent or pay for other companies, which will impact many news agencies.
- nurtbo 2y agoPlus Der Spiegel ironically has a pop up offering “consent to tracking” or “pay to be ad-free”
- ajmurmann 2y agoIf it's newspapers, the EU apparently has a carve out because newspapers feel good sand legislators read them when they were young
- TheCoelacanth 2y agoMeta had $135 billion in revenue last year vs Der Spiegel's $0.3 billion. Obviously, the largest offenders are going to be the top priority for limited enforcement resources.