Austria's Supreme Court has questioned the legal basis on which Facebook (FB.O) collects user data and referred key issues for a ruling by Europe's top court, after awarding symbolic damages to activist Max Schrems in his privacy case against the company.
Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems sits in his office ahead of a Reuters interview in Vienna, Austria, July 16, 2020. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photocollects user data and referred key issues for a ruling by Europe's top court, after awarding symbolic damages to activist Max Schrems in his privacy case against the company.
The civil case revolves around Schrems' assertion that Facebook deprives users of the rights and protections they enjoy under the EU's privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation , by treating consent as a contract that empowers it to use their data to deliver targeted ads. One question referred by the Austrian court asks whether Facebook's declaration that it intends to process user data undermines the significantly higher protection that consent offers under the GDPR.
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