Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (The Netherlands) - Rechtbank Amsterdam (Tribunale distrettuale di Amsterdam)

Date: 03/15/2023

Subject: The decision of the Rechtbank Amsterdam (District Tribunal of Amsterdam), concern a collective legal action against Facebook Nederland, Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland: the Court, recalling the EU General Regulation on data protection and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice, established that, in the period between the first of April 2010 and the first of April 2020, Facebook violated the right to privacy of Dutch users with regard to the treatment of personal data for advertising aims in the lack of a valid legal basis

Parties: Data Privacy Stichting v. Facebook Netherlands B.V., Meta Platforms, INC., Meta Platforms Ireland LTD.

Original language: Dutch

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access

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