C002 Meta Ireland Limited

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

Filing DPA

DSB (Austria)

Controller

Meta Ireland Limited

Case status

Pending (4 years and more)
Filed: (5 years 4 months ago)

The complaint is one of four complaints on "forced consent" (see C001 to C004) which were filed on Max 25th, 2018. The issue is that the user is forced to consent to the processing of their personal data to use the service. Therefore, such consent cannot be considered as free which is a condition under the GDPR. Facebook demanded users to agree to a new set of privacy policy and terms on 25.5.2018, when the GDPR kicked in.

Facebook in return argued, that all this processing is to be seen as based on a "contract" under Article 6(1)(b) as they describe the processing in an additional introduction that was added to the terms.

ATTENTION: This case is not fully documented in the system

Protocol

Date Summary
18.04.2023
Letter to DSB expanding the scope to any element of Article 6
07.04.2023
Application to EU Court over EDPB decision on access to the file
07.03.2023
Phone Call with BVwG

our email re the oral hearing was received, judge will send his reply soon

19.01.2023
Phone call with BVwG on status of open appeal

BVwG received our appeal on 10.07.2020, also received our additional submission of 27.01.2021

In Summer 2021, DSB sent a submission. We have not been served with that yet.

On 18.01.2023, DSB informed BVwG on DPC's decision.

BVwG will sent us both submissions by DSB.

06.09.2022
Letter to EDPB on Access to Files