The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep by demanding Meta overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta says it is “evaluating” the ruling
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@maxschrems
Max Schrems
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Today the #CJEU has largely declared Meta's approach to #GDPR “compliance” illegal. Meta is basically reduced to core services and consent for anything that goes beyond that. VERY good result as the CJEU (as before) simply applied the letter of the law. https://noyb.eu/...
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@mbarczentewicz
@mbarczentewicz
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I see a lot of breathless misleading reporting about CJEU's Meta judgment based on the press release. Especially this sentence, where the nuance is that it refers to off-platform data ("data at issue"). The question of first-party data is not that clear [image]
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@gabrielazanfir
Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
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Momentous CJEU judgment today, creating new jurisprudence at the intersection of antitrust & data protection law by deciding that an abuse of dominant position in digital markets can be found by an antitrust authority due to a breach of the #GDPR https://curia.europa.eu/... 1/
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@joewestby
Joe Westby
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Happy “independence-from-Meta's-surveillance- capitalism-day”! (h/t @riptari) As major EU court CJEU ruling confirms that Meta's invasive data harvesting for ad profit without people's consent is *not* legal. https://techcrunch.com/...
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@privacymatters
@privacymatters
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@VeraJourova ... 1/ Not really. Take the case of @meta for example. Today the @EUCourtPress ruled in Case C-252/21 https://curia.europa.eu/... I'm in the UK. Consider that ruling then consider Meta's response to me wrt to the same issues in the ruling I would suggest that Meta's …
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@andrejsavin
Andrej Savin
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#CJEU on Meta's data collection: “personalised advertising by which [...] Facebook finances its activity, cannot justify, as a legitimate interest [...], the processing of the data [...] in the absence of the data subject's consent “https://curia.europa.eu/...
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@profschrepel
Thibault Schrepel
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This ( https://curia.europa.eu/... / https://curia.europa.eu/...) is nonsense to me, but not surprising: Continental Can (1973) broke the causal link between dominance and abuse ( https://www.networklawreview.org/ ...). We logically end up with this poor decision. Next step: infr…
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@montezumachavez
Luis Montezuma
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Judgment of the Court in Meta Platforms and Others (General terms of use of a social network) A national competition authority can find, in the context of the examination of an abuse of a dominant position, that the GDPR has been infringed. See https://curia.europa.eu/... [image]
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@mbarczentewicz
@mbarczentewicz
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1/ What must you know about today's potentially momentous decision from the EU's highest court (CJEU) in Meta's case? (Case C-252/21) TLDR: personalized advertising under the GDPR may get even more tricky, but this is not the end.
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@maxschrems
Max Schrems
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This is “#GDPR meltdown day” for @Meta - CJEU basically closes all “loopholes” their lawyers have argued for the last five years. We have put together a (very) first statement here: https://noyb.eu/... https://twitter.com/...
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@krisshrishak
Kris Shrishak
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Big news from CJEU with three key components: 1. Competition authorities can assess #GDPR compliance when investigating abuse of dominant position. 2. Legitimate interest, in the absence of consent, may not be a sufficient legal basis for personalised ads. [image]
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@privacymatters
@privacymatters
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🍿 This is big. A number of Competition Authorities are seriously tackling the abuse of privacy esp wrt to mobile .. via examining architectures of choice, browser and search engine defaults, deceptive design etc 💪 https://twitter.com/...
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@gabrielazanfir
Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
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This is a case concerning a decision by the Federal German Antitrust regulator against Meta. The case refers to the combined processing of on-platform and off-platform data to create profiles relied on for targeted advertising without valid GDPR consent. 2/