"Mita" loses a lawsuit in Germany over leaking half a billion people

The company “Meta platforms” is facing the risk of remuneration claims of thousands of users in Germany after losing a lawsuit for leaking data related to half billion people in 2021. The court said in its statement issued today, Monday, that the proof of users is sufficient to leak, without proving that they have been subjected to a specific damage sustained. To cancel a previous decision in favor of “Mita”, the judges explained that the compensation in cases of loss of data will only be about 100 euros ($ 106). According to these guidelines, the case will be considered before the Cologne Court. The leakage of “Facebook” data The matter is related to the leakage of data in 2021, where personal information on 533 million Facebook users, including phone numbers and e -mail addresses, appeared on a piracy. Two years ago, the Irish Data Protection Committee, the most important organizational authority for the “Meta” privateness in the European Union, imposed a 265 million euro fine on the company for lack of adequate protection for data. ‘Mita’ said that the Supreme Court decision did not match the judicial precedents of the European Court of Justice, the Supreme Court in the European Union, which includes 27 countries. The company expressed its confidence that he would win in the minimum court again; Where she confirmed that the “Facebook” systems were not subjected to penetration and that there was no data offense. On Monday, this decision will be a guide for thousands of issues pending in Germany. In the past, the advocates of Meta reported in October that the company had acquired 6,000 cases related to this lawsuit, pointing out that it was an 85%success rate. Attorneys did not make it clear whether these statistics include the cases that Mita completed. The data was collected between 2018 and 2019 by entering random phone numbers using contacts imports. The case is registered with BGH, VI ZR 10/24.