The American social network is the subject of an investigation by the European Commission on possible anti-competitive practices.
According to the “Financial Times”, Facebook has launched legal action against the EU (archives).
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The US social network Facebook, which is under investigation for possible anti-competitive practices, rejects some of the EU’s demands. Calling them irrelevant, he says they fall within the privacy of his employees.
The American group assures to cooperate with the authorities, but “the exceptionally broad nature of the requests of the European Commission means that we should provide them documents mainly unrelated to their investigation”, declared the lawyer in charge of competition at Facebook.
He mentions in particular requests for “highly sensitive personal information such as medical or financial information and private information on the families of employees.” “We believe that such requests should be examined by European courts,” he concludes.
Action en justice de Facebook
According to a article From the “Financial Times” published Monday, Facebook has launched a lawsuit against the European Union (EU), accused of invading the privacy of its employees. The American group believes that these documents can only be shared if certain rules are respected, but ensures that the European Commission has rejected its offers so far.
The EU is investigating possible practices aimed at preventing any competition from companies like Facebook or Apple. The European Commission is stepping up its offensives against dominant digital platforms, in a context of deadlock in international negotiations on their taxation. Facebook says it has already sent 315,000 documents related to the antitrust investigation this year, or 1.7 million pages.
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