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Brendan Jones Jul 4, 2023

Not only will #Threads not be launching in the EU (presumably because it'll be sucking up so much personal data that they can't make it GDPR compliant), but now the The European Court of Justice has agreed with Germany’s anti-cartel watchdog that Meta can't share harvested personal data between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. That ruling will also apply to Threads.

A great day for consumer protections.

https://www.thelocal.com/20230704/eu-court-deals-blow-to-meta-in-german-data-case/ #Meta

EU court deals blow to Meta in German data case

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp may need to overhaul how they collect the data of users in Europe after the top EU court ruled against parent company Meta on Tuesday.

The Local

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KevinOnEarth Jul 5, 2023

@Brendanjones They passed a similar rule on WhatsApp when Facebook bought it. FB said OK fine, then a few months later they just ignored it & centralised all User data anyway! Never heard of any penalty but if there was it was most probably simply absorbed into their accounts & forgotten about.
Bis repetita.

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Brendan Jones

@Quantillion Indeed. However as Sebastian noted, this decision opens up ways to deal with that https://mstdn.social/@sebaskr/110658023316584690

Sebastian Kränzle (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Similarly interesting, the Court stressed that data protection and access to personal data are crucial factors for #competition in digital markets (Para 51). Breaches against the #GDPR can be considered by competition authorities when assessing the abuse of a dominant position under EU Law (Para 48). https://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-252/21

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