Ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest against military conscription order

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Meta violates EU competition law risking fines

Meta violated the EU’s new competition law in requiring Instagram and Facebook users to pay if they don’t want their personal data used to generate targeted ads, The Washington Post writes.

“We want to empower citizens to be able to take control over their own data,” Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s executive vice president for competition policy, said.

The EU antitrust law fully went into effect in March, with proponents claiming that it would keep big internet companies from abusing their market power to the detriment of consumers.

Meta could face fines of as much as 10 percent of its annual global revenue if the commission upholds the stance in its final decision.

Jewish men poured into the streets of Jerusalem on Sunday night to protest against Israel’s top court’s decision on mandatory military conscription.

“We all declare to the court: we’ll die, we won’t enlist,” reads one of the posters.

According to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week, there is no legal basis for exempting ultra-Orthodox religious scholars from mandatory military conscription.

The decision raises the political stakes for the two ultra-Orthodox political parties upon which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s thin parliamentary coalition rests. Carving out military-service exemptions is one of their key political goals. Without that their religious leaders say they have no reason to be in the government.