The dispute is over arcane details of GDPR. But the future of social media companies in Europe is at stake. Meta collects data from the users of Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, which it then uses to sell ads. Meta alerts users to this arrangement in its terms of service – the long, dense legal document accepted by 99 per cent of users without scrutiny. The EU body responsible for implementing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The European Data Protection Commission (EDPB), is of the view that alerting users about data policy in the terms of service is not…

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