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Did the CJEU just junk the EU's intermediary liability AND general monitoring rules? X v Russmedia
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Did the CJEU just use the GDPR to junk the intermediary liability exemption and impose a general monitoring obligation? Here's a look at yesterday's Russmedia judgment.
The facts are pretty grim: "X" saw an ad on an Russmedia's online marketplace falsely promoting her as a sex worker. She reported it, Russmedia took it down, but the ad had already been scraped and copied on other sites.
X sued Russmedia, which predictably said it was just an intermediary service and not liable for the contents of users' posts.
But the court said that Russmedia was a controller, and required a…
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