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In October 2021, The Irish Data Processing Commission (DPC) produced a Draft Decision on a complaint against Facebook originally raised by Max Schrems with the Austrian data protection authority. In accordance with GDPR rules, Austria handed the case to Ireland, where Facebook’s European headquarters is located.
The draft decision, three years in the making, finds in favor of Facebook; that is, Facebook does not require specific user consent for personal data processing because its terms of service have been changed into a terms of contract.
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