Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" | Electronic Frontier Foundation

[rcjordan]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead


Good read, but one point bothers me;

Meta's answer to this is a "Pay or Okay" system, in which users who do not consent to Meta's surveillance will have to pay to use the service, or be blocked from it

I don't like "Pay or Okay" but it seems to be a reasonable offer by a vendor.  There has to be some sort of monetization that'll pay the bills.

[ergophobe]

Just based on the title and source, I was pretty sure who I would find in the byline.

On the one hand, I agree with you and think the Pay or Okay model is okay. You have to keep the lights on. On the other hand, I do not think that Okay means okay to completely unfettered deep surveillance of all aspects of my life and relationships with almost no guardrails or transparency.

In the US, as permissive and aggressively applied as the first two Amendements are, they actually have a lot of limitations. That seems like a model - Okay means you can gather some data, but there are limits to what you can gather and especially to how you can use it.