{"id":965737,"date":"2025-10-03T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965737"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:49:43","slug":"meta-defends-ads-model-in-e550-million-data-protection-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/03\/meta-defends-ads-model-in-e550-million-data-protection-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta defends ads model in \u20ac550 million data protection trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook owner Meta on Wednesday defended its advertising model in a \u20ac550-million trial in Spain over alleged breaches of EU data protection rules brought by more than 80 Spanish media organisations.<\/p>\n<p>EU rules oblige companies to obtain users&#8217; consent to create personalised advertising from their data.<\/p>\n<p>Spain&#8217;s main media association AMI says the US tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, created &#8220;unfair competition&#8221; by &#8220;systematically&#8221; breaking the law between May 2018 and July 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook owner Meta on Wednesday defended its advertising model in a \u20ac550-million trial in Spain over alleged breaches of EU data protection rules brought by more than 80 Spanish media organisations. EU rules oblige companies to obtain users&#8217; consent to create personalised advertising from their data. Spain&#8217;s main media association AMI says the US tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, created &#8220;unfair competition&#8221; by &#8220;systematically&#8221; breaking the law between May 2018 and July 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}