Facebook’s Antitrust Challenge Gets EU Top Court Review
- Dusseldorf court asks ECJ to weigh in on scope of data rules
- Social network is fighting German antitrust attack on ad model
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Facebook Inc.’s challenge to a German antitrust attack on its business model will head to the European Union’s top court after a national tribunal sought legal advice on EU data rules.
A Dusseldorf court asked judges at the EU’s Court of Justice to decide whether a violation of data regulations can be cited in an antitrust case. The German tribunal is weighing Facebook’s attempt to overturn a 2019 decision from Germany’s Federal Cartel Office and held a hearing on the case on Wednesday. The antitrust agency had ordered the social network to overhaul how the company tracks users’ web browsing.