Meta Ordered to Provide User’s Complete Personal Data in Austrian Supreme Court Ruling

The company must provide full access to personal data collected on any user in the European Union who requests it.
Meta Ordered to Provide User’s Complete Personal Data in Austrian Supreme Court Ruling
A pedestrian walks in front of the Meta logo at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2021. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Austria’s highest court has ordered Meta to give an online privacy activist full access to his personal data, establishing what could be a landmark legal precedent across the European Union.

In a decision handed down on Dec. 18, Austria’s Supreme Court of Justice sided with Austrian lawyer and activist Max Schrems, who first sued Facebook in 2014, seeking complete access to the personal data the social media company had collected about him.