BERLIN—A state court in Berlin ruled that some user terms set by Facebook Inc. violated consumer-data protection law, in the latest example of back-and-forth between companies and courts to define the boundaries of the European Union’s extensive privacy rules. The ruling Friday, from the highest court in the city-state of Berlin, is a regional interpretation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which after nearly two years of being in effect still isn’t uniformly enforced across Europe.
Source: Wall Street Journal January 24, 2020 18:45 UTC