Meta's 'Pay or Consent' Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny
Briefly

This binary choice forces users to consent to the combination of their personal data and fails to provide them a less personalized but equivalent version of Meta's social networks, the Commission said.
Users who do not consent should still get access to an equivalent service which uses less of their personal data, in this case for the personalisation of advertising, the Commission added.
Meta's approach does not allow users to choose a service that uses less of their personal data, stating it doesn't permit users to exercise their right to freely consent to combine their data from its services to target them with personalized online ads, the Commission said.
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