Notices by Danny Mekić (dannymekic@mastodon.social)

In my opinion, this violates not only the GDPR (no free choice), but also consumer law: the service must comply with the agreement, and by blocking access overnight, the service no longer complies with the agreement.

As a result, I am now unannouncedly locked out of my Facebook account until I make a 'choice' (pay for privacy or now agree to targeted ads, whereas before I did not see any targeted ads).

The second lie consists of Facebook pretending that a law has changed ("Laws are changing") so that people now have to choose to pay or give permission to use personal data. However, no law has changed: this was always the law.

Fortunately, I was able to take a screenshot last week, because Facebook no longer lets you go to your account settings or even your profile at all before you make a 'choice'.

Dishonest 'choice' by Facebook to force users to choose between free use (with a privacy invasion) or pay for privacy.

Why untruthful? First, Facebook says that that I am now using Facebook for free with 'personalized' ads, but that is not true.

The European Commission wants to start eavesdropping on all our private messages, photos/videos and conversations(!) via apps. To pressure the Netherlands and other countries to vote in favour, it posted illegal, misleading ads on Twitter/X. At election time. This is unheard of: