It’s been a few days since the CJEU’s landmark 4th July decision in Meta Platforms v Bundeskartellamt (Case C-252/21). As readers of the blog will probably have seen elsewhere, this was no Independence Day victory for Meta. Instead, the CJEU Grand Chamber upheld the idiosyncratic blending of competition law and GDPR by the German competition regulator (the Federal Cartel Office, or FCO). Continue reading →