This episode explores the exploitation of personal data in a business model on popular social media platforms and in media outlets.

Who's our Ethical Ally guest? 
Aurélie Pols is a founder, Privacy Engineer and independent DPO, who consults globally for companies about their compliance obligations. 

Wherever you go online and use services for free, then usually you are the product and your personal data and behaviour is gained insights from and sold to advertisers. 
Meta’s business model, for example, is based on this. They want to turn from a free-to-use social media platform to a paid-subscription model. 

We move on to discuss the brand new Digital Service Act (DSA) and DMA and Meta’s role and relation to GDPR before we begin to chat about media outlets locking content behind paywalls so that you have to buy the article or even entire subscription before you can read the article.

Why do they do it, why now and what does that mean for users? 

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