The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected the group’s appeal Goalthat the Facebookto avoid a fine of eight million euros for not respecting European competition in a data protection process.
According to the judgment announced this Wednesday, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has rejected the appeal that the Goal filed because the group owns those platforms like Facebook, Instagram and the Whatsapp “it has not shown that the request for the transmission of documents to be identified by search terms went beyond what was necessary and that the protection of sensitive data was not sufficiently ensured by the creation of a virtual data room”.
In May 2020, the European Commission asked the Goal documents showing that it complied with European data protection law and decided to impose a fine of EUR 8 million if the holder of the Facebook did not provide the documents.
In July of that year, the Goal has lodged an appeal seeking the annulment of the Commission’s decision and interim measures, resulting in the suspension of the fine until the group has provided documentation to support the allegations.
a Goal argued that the European Commission asked “a large number of documents without relevance” for the established process.
However, the court was of the opinion that the Commission may request the necessary documentation to verify whether there has been a breach of European law.
a Goal contested that it was “unreasonable, if not impossible, to indicate each search term separately”as requested by Brussels, but the CJEU agreed with the Commission.
This week, the Irish Data Protection Commission issued a fine Goal in more than a billion euros for breaches of data protection law and limited the transfer of information between the two sides of the Atlantic until October.
Source: DN
