Consumer associations from eight European countries filed a complaint, Thursday, February 29, with the personal data protection authorities. Since November, Meta has offered European users of Facebook and Instagram the choice between continuing to use these services for free.
This formula was presented by the American giant as a way of complying with European rules on the processing of personal data. The decision will be centralized, and should in principle fall to the Irish data protection authority since it is in this country that Meta's European headquarters is established.