EU Court of Justice · 5 June 2018

Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein

In plain English

A business that runs a Facebook fan page is a controller, jointly with Facebook, for the data collected about the page's visitors. The German authority could also act against Facebook's German establishment.

  • Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein v Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH
  • Case C-210/16
  • ECLI:EU:C:2018:388

What the court ruled

the concept of ‘controller’ within the meaning of that provision encompasses the administrator of a fan page hosted on a social network.

Judgment of 5 June 2018, Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein, C-210/16, EU:C:2018:388, operative part, point 1EUR-Lex

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