http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230707-231135-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/competition-law-as-a-powerful-tool-for-effective-enforcement-of-the-gdpr/ Competition law as a powerful tool for effective enforcement of the GDPR Ruschemeier, Hannah eng 2023-07-07 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 consent data protection ECJ Facebook gdpr Meta Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 It looks like a good week for data protection. On Tuesday, the Commission presented a new proposal for a Regulation on additional procedural rules for the GDPR, and a few hours later, the ECJ published its decision C-252/21 on Meta Platforms v Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office). While the Commission's proposal to improve enforcement in cross-border cases should probably be taken with a pinch of salt, the ECJ ruled on some things with remarkable clarity. The first reactions to the ruling were quite surprising; few had expected the ECJ to take such a clear stance against Meta's targeted advertising business model. It does however represent a consistent interpretation of the GDPR in the tradition and understanding of power-limiting data protection.