After analysing Meta’s practices, BEUC and its members have found that Meta processes personal data in a way that is  fundamentally incompatible with European data protection law, as it

1. breaches the data protection principles of the GDPR, such as the principles of purpose limitation, data minimisation, fair processing and transparency;

2. has no valid legal basis under the GDPR for its data processing.

This comes on top of the breaches of European consumer law, where BEUC and members already filed a complaint in  November 2023.