Favorited EDPB Urgent Binding Decision on processing of personal data for behavioural advertising by Meta by EDPB
This is very good news. The European Data Protection Board, at the request of the Norwegian DPA, has issued a binding decision instructing the Irish DPA and banning the processing of personal data for behavioural targeting by Meta. Meta must cease processing data within two weeks. Norway already concluded a few years ago that adtech is mostly illegal, but European cases based on the 2018 GDPR moved through the system at a glacial pace, in part because of a co-opted and dysfunctional Irish Data Protection Board. Meta’s ‘pay for privacy‘ ploy is also torpedoed with this decision. This is grounds for celebration, even if this will likely lead to legal challenges first. And it is grounds for congratulations to NOYB and Max Schrems whose complaints filed the first minute the GDPR enforcement started in 2018 kicked of the process of which this is a result.
…take, within two weeks, final measures regarding Meta Ireland Limited (Meta IE) and to impose a ban on the processing of personal data for behavioural advertising on the legal bases of contract and legitimate interest across the entire European Economic Area (EEA).
European Data Protection Board
@ton @noybeu Meta then says “The EU is making us force you to pay”.
@dascandy42 @noybeu the pay for play ploy is a form of contract and not meaningful consent. Won’t wash as it falls within this decision I expect, as it was a known plan.
@ton @noybeu It *is* covered in the decision! Nice.
Can’t wait for all the people around me to wake up.