@buherator it's all about consent. it cannot be that you can only decline consent if you pay, but not decline consent if you are in the freemium model. people must be able to give or decline their consent without having to pay for the loss of profit for doing so to the company. so it is totally ok to commercialize PII if the subjects do consent.
@buherator the "pay or okay" model is contested by noyb and they have a good explanation why that is bad: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-gdpr-complaint-against-meta-over-pay-or-okay
@buherator i think the essence is this:
> Under EU law, consent to online tracking and personalized advertising is only valid if it is “freely given”. This is to ensure that users only give up their fundamental right to privacy if it is their genuine free will to do so. Meta has now implemented the exact opposite of a genuinely free choice: Facebook alone will introduce a “privacy fee” [..] if users do not consent to their personal data being processed for targeted advertising.
@buherator do i sell my personal data with every purchase? it is possible not do so, but it is becoming more and more difficult, bringing out the hammer is good, so the choice remains, no?