The lawsuit, filed by the Information Media Association (AMI) on behalf of 83 Spanish outlets - including industry leaders El Mundo, El PaÃs and others - accuses Meta of violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since it came into effect in 2018 until mid-2023, when Meta finally bowed to regulator pressure and promised it would begin explicitly asking for EU users' permission when seeking to collect data for advertising purposes.
Meta's dominance - which it owes in large part to the sheer volume of data it has collected on EU citizens - has left Spanish outlets unable to compete, argued AMI president José Joly. The sustainability of the Spanish media is therefore at risk, he added.
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