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EU Court Rules National Privacy Regulators May Act Against Violations in Blow to Facebook

Earlier in June, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation against Facebook to assess if the online giant violated EU competition rules.
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The European Union's Court of Justice (CJEU) said that national data watchdogs in Europe may act against companies, even if they are not lead regulators for the firms, in a blow to Facebook which has disputed the Belgian regulator's authority.

"Under certain conditions, a national supervisory authority may exercise its power to bring any alleged infringement of the GDPR before a court of a member state, even though that authority is not the lead supervisory authority with regard to that processing," the CJEU said.

Earlier, a Belgian court found Facebook guilty of violating privacy laws and ordered it to delete the collected user data.

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