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EU Ruling Broadens Facebook Vulnerability on Data Privacy

Posted on January 15, 2021 by pogowasright.org

Molly Quell reports:

Ireland may be home to Facebook’s European headquarters, but that doesn’t make the Irish Data Protection Commission the only body able to go after the social media giant, a magistrate for the EU’s top court said Tuesday.

The case was referred to the European Court of Justice by the Hof van beroep, the Belgian appeals court, after the Belgian privacy watchdog, the Data Protection Agency, sued Facebook over the company’s use of trackers to follow nonusers online.

Read more on Courthouse News.

h/t, Joe Cadillic

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