[rvieira]

As most people, I guess, during the peak of the pandemic I increased my online shopping a lot. From food take-aways to vinyl records.

These can be examples: the majority of restaurants in my area proudly claim an "online presence" which is really just a basic FB page. And a 2nd hand record shop whose "site" was a minimal FB page with no way of looking at the catalogue.

True, there are other ways, using the phone like a savage (joking), but when local councils force you to subscribe to their page to get important updates like school and road closures, there's this snowball effect where you either cave in and open a FB account or make your life harder.

[rglullis]

I'm pretty sure that there is some kind of legal action to be taken against any public organization requiring the population to access things through Facebook.

How can a city council reconcile this with GDPR?

[Schroedingersat]

Same way the QLD government reconciled requiring an app from either google or apple which additionally logged your location and everywhere you went to microsoft in order to leave your house during the pandemic? Ie. not having any laws respecting privacy.

[Nextgrid]

GDPR has a major enforcement problem so a lot of offenders are allowed to run free and may not even realize they're breaching the regulation.

[rglullis]

Yes, sure. But this is not just random shop that happens to be dealing with European customers, it is an European city council. Is there any other place where people can and should call for enforcement?