22 August 2019
"Europe’s top court ruled Monday (30 July) that companies that embed Facebook’s “Like” button on their websites must seek users’ consent to transfer their personal data to the US social network, in line with the bloc’s data privacy laws. (....)"
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Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules (euractiv, link):
"Under EU data protection law, therefore, a European retailer and the US platform are jointly responsible for gathering the data and sending it to Facebook’s Irish subsidiary.
Users should therefore be warned and asked to consent to their data being gathered, although the retailer is not responsible for what Facebook does with it later."
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