Meta faces NOYB privacy complaint over ad-free plan

Privacy rights group NYOB brought a complaint against Meta to Austria's Data Protection Authority, alleging its ad-free subscription model forces people to pay a fee for privacy, Reuters reports. Meta defended the model for EU Facebook and Instagram users, noting its compliance with EU rules and similar cost to other platform subscriptions. Editor's note: The IAPP's Joe Duball wrote about the potential effects of the European Data Protection Board's Meta decision.