Meta's ‘consent or pay' tactic must not prevail over privacy, EU rights groups warn

Ahead of a full meeting of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) this week (April 16 and 17), which is expected to produce guidance on a controversial tactic used by Meta to force Facebook and Instagram users to consent to its tracking, almost two dozen civil society groups and nonprofits have penned an open letter urging the bloc’s data protection bodies not to endorse a strategy they say is intended to bypass the EU’s privacy protections for commercial gain.Many of the signatories, which include the l ...