A verdict in the long-standing trial sought by data protection activist Max Schrems is expected in the next few weeks.

Facebook / Max Schrems: The data protection officer's trial against Facebook is reaching its finale - The most important thing at the beginning: the trial due to data protection violations is in the home stretch. Facebook's manager for data protection issues in Europe was covered and ignorant. A verdict will be issued in the next few weeks.

Latest findings

The trial at the Vienna Regional Court is now coming to an end. There should be a written verdict in the next few weeks. In the last hearing, new findings emerged again. Facebook probably stores all passwords ever used by users for at least eight years.
It also analyzes images uploaded by users and adds descriptions to them using artificial intelligence.
Data they collect from third-party apps is underreported.

Insufficient information from Facebook

Cecilia Alvarez, the manager responsible for data protection issues in Europe, was present at the hearing on Thursday in the Vienna Regional Court. Anyone hoping for disclosure of Facebook's data collection practices was disappointed. This information was given very sparsely.

Alvarez also repeatedly referred to the company's data protection guidelines or Facebook's online tools with which users can view data stored by Facebook. As soon as it got into the details, her answer was, “I don’t know.”

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The handling of Facebook users' data is likely to only partially comply with European data protection law. Information about data storage and further processing is only provided to users in very general terms. Often these are only mentioned in the data protection guidelines, where they are difficult to find.

The end of the long-term process is now in sight

Max Schrems told futurezone that Facebook repeatedly claims that every user has expressly consented to the processing of their data. However, the company apparently cannot even explain much of what it does with its users' data.

The process has been dragging on for almost six years now. For a long time the question was whether Schrems could sue Facebook in Austria.


After hearing the Facebook spokeswoman, an end is likely to be in sight and the verdict will be issued in writing in the next few weeks.

Source: futurezone.at
Article image: Shutterstock / From Verticalarray


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