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Europe’s second-highest court rejected Meta Platforms’ challenge to EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday.
The European Commission had sought information related to its probe into Facebook data and online marketplaces, prompting the company to liken competition enforcers to a super trawler fishing for data.
“The General Court ruled that Meta Platforms Ireland failed to demonstrate that the request to provide documents identified by the search terms went beyond what was necessary, or that the establishment of the virtual data room failed to ensure that sensitive personal data were adequately protected,” the Luxembourg-based General Court said. explain.
These cases are T-451/20 Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission and T-452/20 Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission.