{"id":15201,"date":"2024-07-01T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-breaches-digital-law-by-charging-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-says\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:04:39","slug":"meta-breaches-digital-law-by-charging-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/01\/meta-breaches-digital-law-by-charging-for-ad-free-social-networks-eu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta breaches digital law by charging for ad-free social networks, EU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model designed to comply with Digital Markets Act fails to do so<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has breached the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/30\/meta-facebook-instagram-europe-pay-ad-free\">ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram<\/a>, according to the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Meta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model last year in an effort to comply with the bloc\u2019s data privacy rules, under which users pay a monthly fee for an ad-free version of Facebook or Instagram that does not use their personal data for advertising purposes. Users who do not pay consent, as part of the signing up process for the platforms, to their data being used to tailor personalised adverts that appear in their social media feeds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/01\/meta-facebook-instagram-eu-digital-markets-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commission says \u2018pay or consent\u2019 model designed to comply with Digital Markets Act fails to do so Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta has breached the EU\u2019s new digital laws with an advertising model that charges users for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram, according to the European Commission. Meta launched a \u201cpay or consent\u201d model last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}