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Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment

C-40/17Fashion ID GmbH & Co.KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV

Decided
2019-07-29
ECLI
ECLI:EU:C:2019:629
CELEX
62017CJ0040
Finality
Final, the decision cannot be appealed

Also searched as: Fashion ID, the Facebook Like button case, joint controllership ruling, Case C-40/17, C-40/17 2019, ECLI:EU:C:2019:629.

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Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data — Directive 95/46/EC — Article 2(d) — Notion of ‘controller’ — Operator of a website who has embedded on that website a social plugin that allows the personal data of a visitor to that website to be transferred to the provider of that plugin — Article 7(f) — Lawfulness of data processing — Taking into account of the interest of the operator of the website or of that of the provider of the social plugin — Article 2(h) and Article 7(a) — Consent of the data subject — Article 10 — Informing the data subject — National legislation allowing consumer-protection associations to bring or defend legal proceedings.

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