EDPB Adopts Letters to Access Now and BEUC on TikTok and an Art. 65 Dispute Resolution Binding Decision Regarding Instagram

The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted two letters in response to Access Now and BEUC concerning TikTok. In these letters, the EDPB highlights the swift action taken by the Irish, Italian and Spanish Supervisory Authorities (“SAs”) following TikTok’s announcement that it would no longer seek users’ consent to send personalised advertisements, but that the legal basis for this would be the legitimate interest of TikTok and its partners. As a result of these actions, TikTok announced that it would pause the change in the legal basis used for personalised ads.

In addition, the EDPB adopted a dispute resolution decision on the basis of Art. 65 GDPR. Dispute resolution includes the consensus of Irish SA as a lead supervisory authority (LSA) that follows an own-volition inquiry into the processing activities of Meta IE.

Dispute resolution includes the consensus of Irish SA as a lead supervisory authority (LSA) that follows an own-volition inquiry into the processing activities of Meta IE. The SAs were unable to reach a consensus on some of the objections, which were then referred to the EDPB by the LSA for determination under Art. 65(1)(a) GDPR, thereby initiating the dispute resolution procedure.

Afterwards, EDPB has adopted its binding decision and will publish its decision on its website without undue delay after the LSA has notified their national decision to the controller.

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