ARTICLE · 20 JUNE 2016

Is The Like-Button Illegal?

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On 9 March 2016, the Provincial Court Düsseldorf ("LG Düsseldorf") held that using Facebook's popular Like-Button on a business website contravenes privacy and unfair competition laws...

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Alexander Schnider

On 9 March 2016, the Provincial Court Düsseldorf ("LG Düsseldorf") held that using Facebook's popular Like-Button on a business website contravenes privacy and unfair competition laws if the users are not properly informed and thus did not give their consent to the respective data use (.pdf-download-link: LG Düsseldorf, Docket No. 12 O 151/15 [only available in German language]):

"Using the Facebook-"Like"-Plugin on the Defendant's website without informing the users about the transfer of their IP address and their browser-string to Facebook prior to that transfer is unfair under sec. 3a of the [German] Unfair Competition Act in conjunction with sec. 13 of the [German] Telemedia Act."

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