lol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Act
lol. Facebook's "pay or consent" model does not comply with the Digital Markets Act
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Honestly, EU could just operate on an "opposite-day" policy, where they consequently outlaw every business practice Facebook ("Meta") partakes in, and it would be 99% correct and beneficial to every citizen.
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They didn't need to put this in, but they did;
In case of non-compliance, the Commission can impose fines up to 10% of the gatekeeper's total worldwide turnover. Such fines can go up to 20% in case of repeated infringement. Moreover, in case of systematic non-compliance, the Commission is also empowered to adopt additional remedies such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell a business or parts of it or banning the gatekeeper from acquisitions of additional services related to the systemic non-compliance.
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pretty common to see that mentioned ito EU going after megacorps; the tone was set by microsoft actions in the 00s (the Office saga), and has rung a few times since over the years
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Most media paywalls nowadays have "pay or consent to cookies and swallow advertizing"...
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It's a good day to be an EU citizen.
Just like yesterday.
just like tomorrow.
Just like any other day
except whenever some asshole pushes for ChatControlwatching the chatcontrol shit from afar has been extremely depressing
and it's the idea that'll never die as long as police/security forces are built the way they are right now, which doubly sucks
Yeah. It's also just so incongruous with everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for.
The best thing would be if the courts decide that mandatory client side scanning is plain illegal. But for that the measure has to pass, so someone can sue. Not a pleasant prospect.