European consumers challenge Meta paid service as privacy ‘smokescreen’

Consumer groups from eight EU countries lodged complaints on Thursday against Meta, accusing the US company of illegally processing user data and using its “pay or consent” system as a “smokescreen” for privacy breaches. Meta has reaped rich financial rewards by selling Facebook and Instagram user data to advertisers, but its business model has pit […]

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