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
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.
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.
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
It's a good day to be an EU citizen.
Just like yesterday.
just like tomorrow.
Just like any other dayexcept 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
Most media paywalls nowadays have "pay or consent to cookies and swallow advertizing"...