In its recent judgment, the European Court of Justice found that IAB Europe, as the sectoral organisation of the digital advertising market, qualifies as a joint controller by defining and applying the framework established to manage data processing consents for the display of online advertising.…
Will joint processing of data come into fashion?
The ECJ's judgment in the Fashion ID Case
At the end of July, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in case no. C-40/17 (“Fashion ID Case”), which dealt with the interpretation of the concept of data controller and the issue of joint data processing. The basic question to be clarified was the role of the website operator and Facebook in…