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CJEU, IT and defamation law

New judgment: Facebook can be ordered to remove defamatory posts, despite ecommerce law

Background to the case: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2019/05/facebo…
Logically today's judgment on Facebook and defamatory posts might apply to other websites (and other types of unlawful content), subject to analysis of the ruling - and remember the Commission plans to propose revisions to the ecommerce law soon.
CJEU, data protection law and association agreements

New judgment: taking biometric data from Turkish migrants breaches standstill clause in EU-Turkey association treaty - but is justified in public interest: curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche.js…
CJEU, immigration law

Non-EU citizens can obtain long-term resident status even if their resources come from family member etc: curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche.js…

Relevant to UK citizens in EU post-Brexit - see more generally my earlier analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/12/uk-cit… @BritishInEurope
@BritishInEurope CJEU, employment & discrimination law

New judgment: Austrian law on part-time university research contracts breached EU laws on part-time workers and sex discrimination: curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche.js…
First reaction to the CJEU judgment on Facebook and defamation law:

ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/breaki…
Full text of today's CJEU judgments now online in English

1 Facebook and defamation law: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

2 Biometrics, data protection law and Turkish migrants: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

3 Non-EU citizens qualifying to be a long-term resident: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
And also an interesting Court of Appeal judgment yesterday - data protection law can be used to sue Google for damages

Summary: judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…

Judgment: judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…

Builds on 2015 Vidal-Hall judgment, discussed here: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/04/vidal-…
Another first reaction to today's judgment on Facebook and defamatory posts - see also the discussion in the replies
BBC story on the Facebook judgment - with comments from me and @maxschrems - bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
@maxschrems Indeed, today's judgment is about the application of a court judgment finding defamation; and free speech rules in the ECHR, US Bill of Rights and elsewhere permit restrictions on speech based on libel law (subject to limits)
@maxschrems Freedom of expression issues might arise though, not from the original judgment on defamation, but from the way that FB filters posts trying to find more defamation

See by analogy Polish challenge to controversial copyright law - curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
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This is Galaxy Brain level of sophistry from the BBC management.
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Meanwhile, some EU court judgments due this morning:
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