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Fortune
David Meyer

EU's top court limits Meta's ad targeting yet again

Asutrian privacy activist Max Schrems in Vienna, Austria, 3 April 2017. (Credit: Matthias Röder—picture alliance/Getty Images)

Meta faces yet more restrictions on its core ad business in Europe, following a ruling by the EU’s top court.

In its Friday ruling, the Court of Justice of the EU confirmed that the principle of “data minimization"—one of the many rules in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation—means a social network like Facebook can’t simply use all of a user’s data, forever, for the purpose of targeting ads at them.

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