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Facebook sees EU court order ‘controlled access’ to data in antitrust probe

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
  • 29 Oct 2020 05:39
  • 29 Oct 2020 06:13
An EU court has set up a “controlled” procedure for Facebook to share data with EU officials investigating the social network for suspected antitrust abuses, pending a final verdict in its appeal over what it sees as excessive demands for information.
Under the procedure, information will be submitted to

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Lewis Crofts

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Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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