{"id":115331,"date":"2023-07-05T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-top-court-sides-with-germany-in-meta-antitrust-case\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:20:45","slug":"eu-top-court-sides-with-germany-in-meta-antitrust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-top-court-sides-with-germany-in-meta-antitrust-case\/","title":{"rendered":"EU top court sides with Germany in Meta antitrust case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115331\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nFacebook owner Meta had challenged the 2019 finding of Germany&#8217;s anti-monopoly watchdog, which ordered the firm to get consent from users for data collection. The ruling could imperil the position of other tech giants. The Europe Union&#8217;s top court ruled on Tuesday that member states&#8217; antitrust authorities are entitled to check whether tech companies comply with data protection rules.<\/p>\n<p>The European Court of Justice (ECJ) heard the case after the German antitrust agency ordered Facebook owner Meta to stop collecting users&#8217; data without consent. In its 2019 finding, the agency also said that Facebook played a &#8220;dominant&#8221; role on the social network market and would thus be subject to &#8220;special antitrust obligations.&#8221; The agency found that agreeing to Facebook&#8217;s terms of use to create an account, which include a provision on data collection, did not amount to free consent due to the network&#8217;s dominant market role.<\/p>\n<p>Meta had challenged the finding, arguing that the German anti-cartel watchdog had overstepped its authority. The agency then sought advice from the ECJ. Tuesday&#8217;s ruling could imperil the position of other tech giants such as Google, which employ similar data collection mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; ECJ judges said, referring to the EU&#8217;s data protection regulations. However, the court said that regulators must &#8220;take into consideration any decision or investigation by the competent supervisory authority pursuant to that regulation.&#8221; A Meta spokesperson said that the firm was evaluating the decision and would have &#8216;more to say in good course&#8217; .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The judgment will have far-reaching effects on the business models used in the data economy,&#8221; Andreas Mundt, head of Germany&#8217;s antitrust agency, tweeted. &#8220;The judgment sends a strong signal for competition law enforcement in the digital economy, a field where data are decisive for market power,&#8221; Mundt continued. &#8220;When large internet companies use the very personal data of consumers, this usage can also be deemed abusive under competition law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will mean that Meta has to seek proper consent and cannot use its dominant position to force people to agree to things they don&#8217;t want,&#8221; Max Schrems of the NOYB privacy activism NGO said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/eu-top-court-sides-with-germany-in-meta-antitrust-case\/a-66113717\">DW<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/eu-top-court-sides-with-germany-in-meta-antitrust-case\/\">EU top court sides with Germany in Meta antitrust case<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7246,1821,274,1038,2071,10625,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-115331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-antitrust","tag-case","tag-eu","tag-germany","tag-meta","tag-top-court","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}