The article clearly mentions how they are only 'violating the rights' if the user chooses to agree with it rather than paying a subscription. It's a trade.
Why do you think people are entitled to consume free content with no strings attached?
Facebook has 3 options available:
1. Only provide their service to paying customers, no free EU version.
2. Don’t provide the service in the EU at all
3. Provide their service to paying customers, and a free version that doesnt’t violate the law.
What they’re currently doing is “provide their service to paying customers, and a free version that violates the users rights” — that is not a legitimate option, regardless of which rights are being violated or laws are being broken.
You don’t just get to break laws or violate rights because you’d make less money otherwise. You also don’t have to provide the service for free, but they seem to still want to do that.
Now, if you're at a public concert or any type of large gathering, you have less of a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Scale matters. Someone walking past you on the street, or recording everything you do are two very different cases even if all the info is there in both cases. It's not only the action that matters but also the intent and the consequences. Other laws take this into consideration, why not privacy laws?
People and systems are not the same and usually have different purposes. You give up a little privacy in to a person, they don't pay attention, forget, the info is trapped in their head to be converted in vague words. You give up a lot of privacy to a computer, they remember everything accurately and connect different data points across time, space, and systems.
The EU just has a difference stance on privacy, it's as simple as that. You just got used to be disadvantaged by these rules and it looks abnormal when others don't see it that way.
I believe the edpb will later publish guidelines on consent or pay for other companies, which will impact many news agencies.
Obviously, the largest offenders are going to be the top priority for limited enforcement resources.