In February of this year the German antitrust agency, the Federal Cartel Office, issued a decision against Facebook regarding their handling of user data.
Please see our previous blog-post detailing the FCO’s arguments here
Facebook appealed and on August 26, 2019, the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal in an interim decision granted suspensive effect to Facebook’s appeal against the FCO decision.
The DCA can order suspensive effect to an appeal if it has serious doubts whether the prohibition decision is legally valid. Despite the preliminary character of the DCA’s decision, this could represents a significant setback for the FCO and have signaling effect beyond the German borders,. The DCA made certain important points on issues of law, which it will likely not revers during its main proceedings.
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