Austria's top court rules Meta's ad model illegal, orders overhaul of user data practices in EU
The ruling ends an 11-year dispute, requiring Meta to reveal all personal data processing details within one month, reinforcing user consent for personalized advertising.
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Meta Ordered to Provide User’s Complete Personal Data in Austrian Supreme Court Ruling
Austria’s highest court has ordered Meta to give an online privacy activist full access to his personal data, establishing what could be a landmark legal precedent across the European Union. In a decision handed down on Dec. 18, Austria’s Supreme Court of Justice sided with Austrian lawyer and activist Max Schrems, who first sued Facebook in 2014, seeking complete access to the personal data the social media company had collected about him. In a…
This was decided by the Supreme Court (OGH) on Thursday, the lawsuit goes back to Max Schrems.
After 11 years it is clear: Meta Platforms personalized advertising is inadmissible, data collection on third-party pages as well. Meta's information is far too modest.
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