Facebook Antitrust Data-Hunt Gets Ground Rules From EU Court
- Facebook is suing EU over ‘irrelevant’ data demands in probes
- Tech giant said data requests included risks to staff families
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Facebook Inc. may be able to slow down -- but not derail -- European Union antitrust investigators’ demands to turn over vast amounts of data following an EU court order that sets ground rules for efforts to build a case against the U.S. tech giant.
In a decision that isn’t a decisive victory for either side, the president of the EU’s second-highest court said on Thursday that the European Commission can’t force the social network giant to hand over potentially sensitive records without a detailed review.