BRUSSELS : Antitrust authorities can check whether companies such as Meta Platforms comply with EU data protection rules during their investigations, Europe's top court said on Tuesday, a move likely to broaden regulators' scrutiny of Big Tech.
At issue is whether the German antitrust agency overstepped its authority by using its antitrust power to address data protection concerns, which are the remit of national data protection authorities. "A national competition authority can find, in the context of the examination of an abuse of a dominant position, that the GDPR has been infringed," judges said, referring to EU privacy rules.
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