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Meta’s appeal over ‘consent or pay’ rejection published by top EU Court

( August 25, 2025, 09:12 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms Ireland’s appeal against an EU General Court ruling was published by the EU’s top court today. In its appeal from July, Meta asked the court to overturn a ruling that dismissed its challenge of an opinion by the European Data Protection Board — an umbrella group of national data protection authorities — on the company’s “consent or pay” business model, saying the first-tier court had relied on “contradictory and insufficient reasoning.”The summary of the appeal follows. Case reference is C-454/25 P....

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