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Yes, it does and is more formally called the European Court of Justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice

It only handles union law and not national law but I bet FB will try to get the ECJ to review the case as a free movement of goods issue.



Unlikely. Considering how the new Data Protection Directive being written goes further than the current one, and seems to be targetting various things Facebook does (like having all it's EU stuff in Ireland). It seems like a lot of EU law is on the side of privacy and data protection.


I am pretty sure Facebook will try to appeal. Does not mean they will get the appeal though.




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