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Comment by piokoch | Hacker News Reader

To be the advocate of the devil: Facebook might claim that presenting targeted ads to users is their core business - if they stop doing that they will have no source of income.

From what I understand GDPR it allows data processing if this is needed to do the business, as it is in case of Facebook, so if someone refuses to agree for that, such person cannot use FB.

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If they renamed themselves to Adbook and explicitly claimed their service is to offer targeted ads instead of being a social network, they might have a case, unfortunately their service is to offer a social network and they don't need to track me or offer ads in order to provide it. They need to do that in order to make money, which is a completely separate issue.

Unfortunately for my gym, their service is to offer exercise equipment and they don't need to charge me a subscription in order to provide it. They need to do that in order to make money, which is a completely separate issue.

You do know there is an enormous difference between paying for a subscription and letting your gym MITM you/pick your pockets for info, etc, right?

For example your gym might have video surveillance, which is fine, but it has to have a sign and they can't use the footage for anything else than for security reasons without asking you first and they have to delete it after a certain amount of time. They don't have to video tape you and then sell the footage to the health store next door in order to advertise to you in order to let you use the gym.

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