The lawsuit filed by Facebook in our country has been concluded

After the announcement, which included sharing the user data of WhatsApp with Facebook (Meta) and which was widely spoken at the beginning of the year, the Competition Authority announced on January 11, 2021, for the aforementioned social media platforms. interim measure had made the decision. Following this, Facebook and WhatsApp, claiming that a precautionary decision was taken without adequate research on the update, demanded that the decision be stopped. case had opened.

Here is the verdict for that lawsuit filed today. Ankara 4th Administrative Court filed for the annulment of the injunction given by the Competition Authority. dismissal of the case decided.

The injunction was not found to be against the law and legislation.

In the petition of the lawsuit filed by Facebook and WhatsApp, it was stated that the injunction taken by the institution was based on factual errors rather than legal justifications, and the claim of excessive information gathering and sharing of this information was denied. does not reflect reality was specified. In addition, it was noted in the petition that the data update has been carried out since 2016 and that the established transaction is against the law; For this reason, the injunction cancellation had been requested.

However, Ankara 4th Administrative Court, Facebook and WhatsApp against decided to reject the cancellation request. Regarding the reasoning of its decision, the court “As a result of the analysis of the market forces and the structure of the market of Facebook and other related companies, it is possible that the said practices may cause serious and irreparable damages until the final decision to be taken as a result of the investigation, that the main investigation about the companies in question is still ongoing and a decision can be made again on this issue. Considering this, in Turkey, it is legal and regulatory to take a temporary injunction in the form of Facebook notifying all users who accept the terms or do not accept the terms by receiving the information, that they have stopped the new terms that include data sharing. no inconsistency concluded.” used the phrases.