A MADRID court has set an October 2025 trial date for a €550 million lawsuit by more than 80 Spanish media companies against Facebook owner Meta for allegedly violating EU data protection rules.
EU rules oblige companies to obtain users’ consent to create personalised advertising from their data.
The AMI media association AMI claims the US tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, created ‘unfair competition’ by ‘systematically’ breaking the law between May 2018 and July 2023.