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After a question from the conservative EPP group, McGrath confirms he'll use the #DigitalFairnessAct (DFA) to tackle barriers to protecting people as consumers, especially safeguarding minors from unfair marketing techniques like in-app sales & gambling-like features in video games.
We call on the Commissioner-designate to use the #DFA to also address the massive gap in regulating #SurveillanceAds and pervasive online #tracking that continues to undermine everybody's #privacy online!

In the latest episode of #BigTech fuckery, #Google & #Instagram made a "secret deal to target #ads for #Insta to #teenagers on #YouTube."

This Google marketing campaign "deliberately targeted a group of [underage] users labelled as “unknown” [...] to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised."

Google’s own rules as well as the #EU's #DigitaServicesAct prohibit targeting online ads to minors.

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Today: #DMA #compliance workshop with #Meta lawyers at the @EU_Commission:

The #DigitalMarketsAct mandates Meta to "enable end users to freely choose to opt-in to [combining or cross-using personal data] by offering a less personalised but equivalent alternative".

When I pointed out to Meta that by offering users to either #consent to #SurveillanceAds or pay € 275 per year for #Instagram & #Facebook isn't "equivalent alternative" they said, Meta *has* to do that because of #GDPR 😤 Really??