In this file photo illustration, a smart phone screen displays the logo of Facebook on a Facebook website background, on April 7, 2021, in Arlington, Virginia – Facebook on June 9 said it will give employees the option of sticking with remote work for the long term, even offering to help some interested in moving to other countries.Beginning on June 15, Facebook will let any employee whose job can be done remotely ask to work that way permanently, the internet giant told AFP.
The ruling shot down a challenge from Facebook in a case dating back to 2015, in which a Belgian court took up a data-protection issue against the US internet giant.The ECJ noted that the case pre-dated the 2018 entry into force of the EU’s data privacy laws, called GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation.
Facebook, in a statement giving its reaction, focused on the limited scope for such actions happening. The Belgian court in 2018 found against Facebook and ordered it end the practice where it took place without users’ consent, under threat of a daily fine of 250,000 euros.