EU top court joins activist Schrems in privacy dispute with Meta By Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s top court on Friday sided with Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems in his dispute with Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: ).

Schrems filed his complaint in an Austrian court, saying he was targeted by gay ads as a result of Meta’s personalized ads based on the processing of personal data.

The court subsequently sought guidance from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) based in Luxembourg.

“An online social network such as Facebook cannot use all the personal data obtained for the purposes of targeted advertising, without time restrictions and without distinction as to the type of data,” the CJEU said, referring to Meta’s Facebook social network .

Schrems has taken Meta to court several times over alleged violations of the EU privacy law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The case is C-446/21 Schrems (Communication of data to the general public.