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A serious nail in the already closed coffin on the Legitimate Interest claims around personalized advertising that has been all over the ad tech ecosystem - noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instagram-and-whatsapp-declared-illegal
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Basically seems like: If your site's main source of revenue is personalized ads you can't use that as an excuse to automatically opt users in to personalized ads in Europe. A big "NO" to a claim that a lot of businesses have been operating under for GDPR.
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This means that Meta MUST allow European users a version of its platform that *does not have* personalized advertising. This is a big problem for the economics of how Facebook's ad inventory works and is priced.
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I think there is a really interesting philosophical tidbit here that isn't particularly a lawyerly regulatory conclusion but tells us something about how the EU regulatory system thinks, perhaps a way to predict the future: ...
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The EU regulator system fundamentally believes: there is no legitimate interest to do behavioral/personalized advertising. The EU has basically implied this already by GDPR being opt-in, but there have been a lot of loopholes. They are getting closed and this is a big one.
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If your business is behavioral advertising, esp at scale, in the EU, then you should take this as a sign that the EU doesn't really believe your business should exist. This seems to me to be the direction of European regulations and we should likely consider it as predictive.
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This is another big thing to note: Facebook's data is all *first party*. This isn't a first vs third vs second party distinction. The thing that the EU has recognized as a problem and is interested in resolving isn't data sharing or data sale -- it's personalized advertising.
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Yes, to be clear, this specific decision is about dumping a consent requirement into a contract like a ToS. alextcone/1600248824160665600
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I suspect this means a bunch of products that do tracking that have a 'use this and consent to tracking' note or sticker (like the Roomba example below) are going to have to figure out some different processes in the EU/EEA. Chronotope/1553459733566291969
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Other things trending my thinking around how EU will consider behavioral advertising into the future: 1. johnwilander/1149965330627698688
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