Webinar: Taking on Meta – What next for our data?

Four years ago, human rights campaigner Tanya O’Carroll took on social media giant Meta when they refused to stop collecting and processing her personal data for targeted advertising.

In March 2025, Meta settled and agreed to honour O’Carroll’s right to object. But what does that mean for the rest of us? Will Meta try and get around GDPR by forcing people in the UK to ‘consent or pay’? Just how harmful is Meta’s data collection. And, what does this mean for other social media platforms?

Join us for a discussion about the right to object to your personal data being collected and processed for targeted advertising, aka stalker ads.

Chaired by James Baker, Platform Power and Free Speech Programme Manager at Open Rights Group, the panellists include:

Tanya O’Carroll is an independent advisor, strategist and leader focused on tech accountability, human rights and social justice.

Dr James Riley is an independent researcher specialising in the relationships between science, technology, and society.

Swee Leng is an independent consultant advising on legal strategy and tech policy. She sits on the grants committee for the Power and Accountability programme at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Policy Institute of King’s College London.