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Facebook parent Meta loses privacy breach checks case

EU court upholds decision by German antitrust regulators that Meta Plaforms Ireland has harvested information about users

Meta said it is “evaluating” the EU court’s decision “and will have more to say in due course.”

Meta Plaforms Ireland, which owns Facebook, has lost its court fight over a German antitrust order that homed in on the US tech firm’s power to cash-in on a vast trove of users’ data.

The European Union’s Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Germany’s Federal Cartel Office did not overstep its powers when it ordered Facebook to overhaul how it tracks its users’ internet browsing and smartphone apps in 2019. The move followed ...