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spokesperson for the U.S. tech giant, which had compared the
European Commission to a fishing super trawler vacuuming up data
over the requests, said it was "considering its options" over
the court decision.
"The General Court finds that Meta Platforms Ireland has not
successfully demonstrated that the request to provide documents
to be identified by search terms went beyond what was
necessary," the Luxembourg-based General Court said.
The court added in its ruling that Meta had also not shown that
"establishing a virtual data room failed to ensure that
sensitive personal data was sufficiently protected".
Meta can appeal on points of law to Europe's highest court, the
EU Court of Justice.
"We also welcome the Court-established virtual data room, which
recognised that purely private information - including personal
medical files - has no relevance to any competition
investigation," the Meta spokesperson said.
Meta said it handed over more than a million documents since
2019 even as it questioned the necessity and proportionality of
the data requests. An increasing number of companies have
criticised such requests.
The cases are T-451/20 Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission &
T-452/20 Meta Platforms Ireland v Commission.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten,
Jason Neely and Alexander Smith)
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