in the country. Data protection agency AEPD used emergency powers stipulated in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation to ban the Election Day Information and Voter Information Unit tools for up to three months as a precautionary measure.
Meta planned to deploy these tools ahead of the European Parliament election. The company said it designed them to “respect users' privacy and comply with the GDPR” and while it disagrees with the AEPD’s stance, Meta toldThe agency took aim at how Meta planned to process data via the tools. It said there was no justification for the collection of age data and it criticized Meta’s intent to retain the data after the June election.
Other data that Meta planned to process via the election tools included user interactions with those features as well as gender information.
The AEPD asserts that Meta plans to use the tools to remind eligible Facebook and Instagram users in the EU to vote. The watchdog claims that Meta will identify users as eligible voters based on IP addresses and profile data about where they live. However, to vote in the election, the only requirement is to be an adult national of any EU member state.
According to the AEPD, Meta’s approach targets non-EU citizens who live in member countries while leaving out EU citizens who don’t reside in the bloc. It called the company’s treatment of user data "unnecessary, disproportionate and excessive,” according toThe European Commission has raised concerns about Meta’s approach to elections as well. In April, the bloc
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