Telecom Loses Appeal Over Pre-Selected Box on Shared Data

Molly Quell reports:

EU law protects consumers from having to opt out of data-sharing agreements in a contract, the European Court of Justice ruled.

The dispute stems from cellphone contracts that Orange România, Romania’s largest mobile service provider, rolled out in 2018 where a box that indicated the customer had given consent for the company to collect and store customers identification documents was already selected.

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