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Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment

C-252/21Meta Platforms Inc and Others v Bundeskartellamt

Decided
2023-07-04
ECLI
ECLI:EU:C:2023:537
CELEX
62021CJ0252
Finality
Final, the decision cannot be appealed

Also searched as: Meta v Bundeskartellamt, the Meta consent and competition ruling, Case C-252/21, C-252/21 2023, ECLI:EU:C:2023:537.

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Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Social networks – Abuse of a dominant position by the operator of such a network – Abuse which entails the processing of the personal data of the users of that network as provided for in its general terms of use – Powers of a competition authority of a Member State to find that processing is not consistent with that regulation – Reconciliation with the powers of the national data protection supervisory authorities – Article 4(3) TEU – Principle of sincere cooperation – Points (a) to (f) of the first subparagraph of Article 6(1) of Regulation 2016/679 – Whether the processing is lawful – Article 9(1) and (2) – Processing of special categories of personal data – Article 4(11) – Concept of ‘consent’.

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