Facebook has won a legal victory in Europe after the Court of Appeal in Belgium ruled in a privacy case that Belgium’s Privacy Commission does not have jurisdiction over Facebook when it comes to tracking. The dispute relates to tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook users’ public pages.
Kelly Frye Barnett, an attorney at Robinson & Cole, told Legaltech News that the Belgian Privacy Commission, which is a data protection authority, had sued Facebook to try to stop the company from tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium when they visit Facebook’s public pages.
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