The Court of Justice of the European Union dismissed an appeal brought by the group Meta, which owns Facebook, to avoid a fine of eight million euros for disrespecting European competition in a data protection process.
According to the judgment known today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rejected the appeal that Meta filed because the group that owns platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp “failed to demonstrate that the request for transmission of documents to be identified through search terms went beyond what was necessary and that the protection of sensitive data was not sufficiently ensured by the creation of a virtual data room".
In May 2020, the European Commission asked Meta for documents proving that it was complying with European legislation on data protection and decided to impose a fine of eight million euros if the holder of the Facebook failed to provide the documents.
In July of that year, Meta filed an appeal asking for the annulment of the Commission's decision and requested provisional measures, which led to the suspension of the fine until the group presented documentation to prove its allegations.
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Meta argued that the European Commission asked “a large number of unrelated documents” for the initiated process.
However, the court considered that the Commission may request the necessary documentation to verify whether there was a breach of European law.
The Goal contested being “unreasonable, if not impossible, to indicate each search term separately“, as requested by Brussels, but the CJEU agreed with the Commission.
This week Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Meta more than €XNUMX billion for breaches of data protection legislation and restricted until October the transfer of information between the two sides of the Atlantic.
