EU Court of Justice · 29 July 2019
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In plain English
An online shop that embedded Facebook's 'Like' button is a joint controller with Facebook for collecting visitors' data and sending it to Facebook, but not for what Facebook does with the data afterwards.
What the court ruled
The operator of a website … that embeds on that website a social plugin … can be considered to be a controller … That liability is, however, limited to the operation or set of operations … in respect of which it actually determines the purposes and means …
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