The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies. It ruled on Friday that social networks, such as

In its Friday ruling, the Court of Justice of the EU confirmed that the principle of “data minimization"—one of the many rules in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation—means a social network like Facebook can’t simply use all of a user’s data, forever, for the purpose of targeting ads at them.

Once again, the European Union has issued a ruling preventing Meta from going too crazy with user information. The top court in the EU ruled that limits must be put in place for how long Meta and other social media networks can use people’s information for ad targeting strategies.