Following Meta’s launch of a paid subscription for ad-free access to Facebook and Instagram in the EU, EEA and Switzerland, 28 organisations have written to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) for it to be slapped down.
In a press release from late January 2024, while Meta claimed it wants to ‘offer people more choice with how they use [its] services’, it did state that the prospective EU-only manoeuvre is in itself an attempt to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act, which first came into force in May 2023.
