Facebook disagrees with the advocate general and is awaiting the European Court’s decision. The German case is one of many clashes between the Menlo Park, California-based and national authorities. Belgium’s privacy regulator told a court this month that the company was engaged in “unprecedented in monitoring the browsing habits” of millions of people. A new EU privacy law that will take effect in May 2018 will give national regulators the power to fine companies as much as 4% of their global annual sales for violations. The Advocate General in his opinion Tuesday said the court should disregard this law change as far as the case at issue was concerned, given that the changes aren’t yet in force.

Source: Mint October 24, 2017 10:52 UTC