German court held that off-platform data require separate consent
The German court’s judgment of 5 August 2026 clearly distinguishes the transmission of data by a third-party website from their subsequent storage and use by the operator of a social network. The full text of the judgment in our Judykatura database shows that this distinction determined the duties to provide information and erase data, as well as the prohibition on further processing.
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