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Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook on the Expanding Scope of Internet Service Providers’ Monitoring Obligations (C‑18/18 Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland)

Paolo Cavaliere

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/edpl/2019/4/19



Case C‑18/18 Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited, Judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Third Chamber) of 3 October 2019
Article 15(1) of the E-Commerce Directive does not preclude a court of a Member State from: ordering a host provider to remove or block access to information identical to the content of information previously declared unlawful; ordering a host provider to remove or block access to information equivalent to information previously declared unlawful, provided that the content remains essentially unchanged and the differences in the wording are not such as to require the host provider to carry out an independent assessment beyond the elements specified in the injunction; ordering a host provider to remove or block access to information covered by the injunction worldwide within the framework of the relevant international law.
Recitals 6, 7, 9, 10, 40, 41, 45 to 48, 52, 58 and 60; Articles 14, 15(1) and 18(1) of Directive 2000/31 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (‘Directive on electronic commerce’) [2000] OJ L 178/1

Paolo Cavaliere, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh Law School, UK. For correspondence: <mailto:paolo.cavaliere@ed.ac.uk>.

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