… (Request for a preliminary ruling
from the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf (Higher Regional Court, Düsseldorf, Germany))
(Reference for a preliminary ruling -
Regulation
(EU)
2016
/
679
- Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data - Social networks - Article 4(11) - Notion of ‘consent’ of the data subject - Consent given to a dominant undertaking responsible for processing - Article 6(1)(b) to (f) - Lawfulness of processing - Processing necessary for the performance of …
… The questions referred for a preliminary ruling essentially concern, on the one hand, the competence of a national competition authority such as the Federal Cartel Office to examine, as a principal issue or as an incidental question, the conduct of an undertaking in the light of certain provisions of
Regulation
(EU)
2016
/
679
(4) and, on the other hand, the interpretation of those provisions with regard to the processing of sensitive personal data, the relevant conditions for the lawfulness of personal …
… Article 9(2)(e) of that regulation
must be interpreted as meaning that a user does not manifestly make public the data revealed by visiting websites and apps or entered into those websites or apps or resulting from having clicked on buttons integrated into those websites or apps.
(3) Article 6(1)(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
Regulation
2016
/
679
must be interpreted as meaning that the practice consisting in (i) the collection of data from other group services, as well as from third-party websites …