Aral BalkanJul 7, 2023

Folks, the reason #Facebook/ #Instagram/ #Meta/ Zuckerberg hasn’t launched #Threads in the #EU isn’t because the EU is determined to protect your privacy, it’s because the EU is determined to protect The Single Market (peace be upon it) from anticompetitive behaviour. It’s because they’re using Instagram to launch Threads and sharing data between them (and not with EU startups that might want to use that data too). It’s #antitrust, not #privacy. It’s markets, not people.

#DigitalServicesAct

Show threadalternative_be✅🖖🏻Jul 7, 2023
@aral I was convinced it wasn’t privacy, because the data scraping done by #threads is the same already in place by #facebook.
Show threadsabJul 7, 2023
@alternative_be @aral But Facebook is in breach with EU law. Would be bold to launch a new service with the same GDPR breach two days after the ruling.
https://noyb.eu/en/cjeu-declares-metafacebooks-gdpr-approach-largely-illegal
CJEU declares Meta/Facebook's GDPR approach largely illegal

In today's decision, the CJEU declared Meta/Facebook's GDPR approach largely illegal - similar to noyb's previous litigation before the EDPB leading to a fine of € 390 million.

noyb.eu
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@sab @aral Thanks for sharing this article. I suspected as much and wondered whether there would be some kind of ruling about this.
Jul 7, 2023 at 10:35amWeb