"The result could be explosive," a Noerr partner said, after a German commissioner bypassed the Irish data protection authority that usually oversees Facebook's activities to go straight to the EU's top authority.
May 17, 2021 at 04:00 AM
1 minute read
Correspondent, Düsseldorf
Hamburg’s ban on Facebook from collecting user data from WhatsApp in Germany, announced last week, could set a precedent that opens up tech giants headquartered in Ireland to challenges from data protection agencies across Europe, top lawyers have said.
The German data protection agency in Hamburg announced the emergency three-month order days before Facebook’s controversial new data sharing terms for the WhatsApp messaging service – owned by Facebook – were set to go live.
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