{"id":132501,"date":"2024-02-18T04:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/posts\/132501\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:06:34","slug":"we-submitted-a-joint-letter-with-noyb-eu-to-the-european-data-protection-board-for-its-opinion-in-the-meta-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/132501\/","title":{"rendered":"We submitted a joint letter with noyb.eu to the European Data Protection Board for its opinion in the Meta case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will soon issue its most important opinion to date: it will determine whether we still have a realistic option to protect our right to privacy online!<\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, Meta adopted the &#8220;Pay or Okay&#8221; approach. Since then, users are forced to either pay a &#8220;privacy fee&#8221; of \u20ac251.88 per year or agree to be monitored. The supervisory authorities of the Netherlands, Norway and Hamburg have therefore requested a binding opinion from the EDPB on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Pay or Okay&#8221; is legalised, companies in all industry sectors could follow Meta&#8217;s lead &#8211; which could mean the end of real consent in the use of our data.<\/p>\n<p>Homo Digitalis has now joined forces with 27 other civil society organisations including noyb.eu, Wikimedia Europe, Bits of Freedom and Forbrukerr\u00e5det\/Norwegian Consumer Council to urge the EDPB to issue an opinion that protects our fundamental right to data protection!<\/p>\n<p>You can read our joint letter <a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dD96EzQM\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;] The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,87],"tags":[452,457,458,459,558,559,560],"class_list":["post-132501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions","category-reports","tag-collaborations","tag-personal-data-en","tag-privacy-en","tag-internet","tag-meta-en","tag-pay-or-okay-en","tag-european-data-protection-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132503,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132501\/revisions\/132503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}