Robert Bateman is a data protection writer, trainer, and consultant. He has published innumerable articles on the topic, as well as led panel discussions and interviewed key well-known figures in the space on stage, at well-known privacy conferences. Besides freelancing as content creator, he is an associate with Act Now Training and a Subject Matter Expert with Heward Mills, a data protection consultancy.  With Robert, who’s here for a second time, we are going to revisit recent EDPB (or European Data Protection Board) opinions on data processor auditing requirements and Meta’s Consent or Pay model, with its latest twist in mind (a brand new third option with generic, unskippable ads). References: Robert Bateman on LinkedIn EDPB Opinion 22/2024 on certain obligations following from the reliance on processors and sub-processors Meta adds a Plan C to its Pay or Consent model EDPB Guidelines on the technical scope of article 5.3 of the ePrivacy Directive Robert Bateman: Consent or Pay (Masters of Privacy, October 2023)