Cybersecurity
Facebook Wins Belgian Court Case Over Storing Non-User Data
- Belgian courts can’t rule on Facebook’s Ireland-based unit
- Ruling overturns privacy commission order to stop storing data
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Facebook Inc. won an appeal overturning a Belgian privacy ruling that prompted the social network to block people without an account from accessing its site within the country.
The Brussels Court of Appeal said the nation’s data protection authority couldn’t prevent Facebook from storing data from non-users in a fight over measures the technology giant says help it combat hacking attacks.