My visitor on this episode of the Cell Dev Memo podcast is Mikołaj Barczentewicz, a regulation professor at, and the analysis director of, the Legislation and Expertise Hub on the College of Surrey in the UK. Mikolaj is an professional on European knowledge privateness regulation and that is his fourth time showing on the podcast: in earlier episodes, we mentioned the European digital privateness setting broadly, the way forward for EU-US knowledge transfers, and the specifics of the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Companies Act.
On this episode of the podcast, Mikolaj unpacks the realities of “pay or okay,” which is the enterprise mannequin that Meta has determined to use for its customers within the EU, the EEA, and Switzerland after numerous rulings and commentary by EU courts, regulatory our bodies, privateness boards, and privateness authorities. Beneath this mannequin, a consumer is supplied with a selection that dictates their capacity to entry a product: they will pay, or consent to having numerous types of their knowledge processed, usually for digital promoting functions (which is the “okay” element of the mannequin’s identify). A number of firms have utilized this mannequin within the EU within the face of the GDPR’s restrictions associated to knowledge processing, as we mentioned.
Particular subjects of our dialog embrace:
Background on Meta’s pay or okay subscription providing;
Norway’s banning of Meta’s focused promoting;
and the European Information Safety Board’s latest steerage on the ePrivacy Directive.
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