Personal data was also transferred to third parties without the users of the platform being duly informed in this regard and without there being a legal and regulatory basis for it.
An Amsterdam court considered on Wednesday that Facebook violated the law by processing the personal data of Dutch users from the social network between 2010 and 2020 with advertising purposes without legally valid permission, by failing to inform them properly.
This has been the conclusion of the Court in a lawsuit filed by the Association of Consumers in the Netherlands and the Data Privacy Foundation (DPS), which They denounced Facebook for processing personal data of users between April 1, 2010 and January 1, 2020 when this was not allowed for advertising purposes.
What type of data has been processed?
This includes the special data processingsuch as sexual orientation, gender, religion or place of residence, information provided by the users themselves, but third-party developers have been able to also access relative data to browsing behaviors off the platform and in other applications.
They have not only been shared data from Facebook users themselvesbut also from his friends in this social network, recalled the Court.
“I also know transferred personal data to third parties without Facebook users have been duly informed in this regard and without there being a legal and regulatory basis for it,” concluded the court, which limited the sentence to the actions of Facebook Ireland because it is solely responsible for the processing of Dutch user data on the platform.
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The collective procedure presented by the DPS is supported by some 190,000 Dutch users and revolves around the question of whether Facebook acted illegally on a number of issuesso compensation cannot be claimed as part of this specific court case, although it can be done through a future case or through conversations with Facebook to claim compensation.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has already confirmed that it intends to appeal this Dutch judgmentaccording to public television NOS.