Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws

Post by maxerickson » Sun, May 27, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

dhimes wrote: post #381

adventured wrote: post #263

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That's not the number that is being kicked around. Facebook will yield more than $100 per active user in the US and Canada for fiscal 2018. That's going to $200 from here over the next six or seven years (it doubled from 2015 to 2017). No meaningful number of users are paying $15 per month out of pocket for Facebook. Google search is similarly worth a lot per user in the US. People would be irate if they had to pay $…

Last time someone claimed they knew the numbers I asked them to explain how. They disappeared without replying. So I'll ask you the same thing. If you divide revenue by users you get between $1-$2 USD. I need to know how NA are 50-100 times that.

Post by Doxin » Mon, May 28, 2018, 10:03 AM UTC

dmortin wrote: post #58

ckastner wrote: post #6

> "The GDPR explicitly allows any data processing that is strictly necessary for the service - but using the data additionally for advertisement or to sell it on needs the users' free opt-in consent" This is the key point. As the saying goes, on Facebook, you aren't the customer, you are the product. The GDPR just changed this -- rightfully, in my opinion.

Somebody has to pay for it in the end, so Facebook could simply say "agree to targeted advertising and use the site for free or do not agree and pay a monthly fee for the site".