{"id":1648061,"date":"2022-09-20T05:05:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648061"},"modified":"2022-09-20T05:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T09:06:09","slug":"metas-privacy-obligations-may-be-added-to-german-antitrust-probe-court-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metas-privacy-obligations-may-be-added-to-german-antitrust-probe-court-adviser-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s privacy obligations may be added to German antitrust probe, court adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmetas-privacy-obligations-may-be-added-to-german-antitrust-probe-court-adviser-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Foo Yun Chee<\/p>\n<p>LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -Antitrust authorities may assess whether companies comply with EU data protection rules during their investigations, an adviser to Europe\u2019s top court said on Tuesday, dealing a possible blow to Meta Platforms in its fight against the German competition agency.<\/p>\n<p>The non-binding opinion, if followed by the Court of the Justice of the Europe Union (CJEU) in the coming weeks, could further embolden the German enforcer and its peers in other EU countries to widen their scrutiny of Big Tech based on privacy rules.<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s battle with the German cartel office started in 2019 after the latter said the world\u2019s largest social network had abused its market power by collecting users\u2019 data without their consent and ordered it to stop.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, challenged the finding. At issue is whether the German antitrust agency overstepped its authority by using its antitrust power to address data protection concerns, which are the remit of national data protection authorities. <\/p>\n<p>A German court subsequently sought guidance from the CJEU.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate General Athanasios Rantos at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said whether a company complies with the bloc\u2019s landmark privacy rules or may be an important indication of whether its conduct breaches competition rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA competition authority may, in exercising its powers, take account of the compatibility of a commercial practice with the General Data Protection Regulation,\u201d he said in a non-binding opinion.<\/p>\n<p>He said antitrust watchdogs however need to consult with the lead privacy enforcers as well, which in Meta\u2019s case is the Irish data protection agency as its European headquarters is based there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it must take into account any decision or investigation by the competent authority under that Regulation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said: \u201cWe await the final judgment to determine any next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court, which usually follows the majority of such recommendations, will rule in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Meta is also in the German watchdog\u2019s crosshairs for linking its Oculus virtual reality products with the social network and its platform. <\/p>\n<p>In May, it was designated by the German authority as of \u201cparamount importance for competition across markets\u201d subject to tougher rules.<\/p>\n<p>The case is C252\/21 Meta Platforms and others (general conditions of use of a social network).<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee, additional reporting by Marine Strauss in Brussels; editing by David Evans)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/german-antitrust-watchdog-may\/file-photo-logo-of-meta-platforms-is-seen-in-davos\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J0B4-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8J0B4-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -Antitrust authorities may assess whether companies comply with EU data protection rules during their investigations, an adviser to Europe\u2019s top court said on Tuesday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}