https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/15/facebook-dutch-ads-ruling/

In the latest blow to Meta’s consentless behavioral ad-targeting business in Europe, a Dutch court has found the social media giant’s Irish subsidiary did not have a lawful basis to process local users’ data for ad targeting.

Dutch privacy advocacy group, the Data Privacy Foundation (DPS), along with a local consumer protection not-for-profit, Consumentenbond, filed suit against the company formerly known as Facebook back in 2019 — arguing the social networking service was in breach of EU data protection rules by failing to obtain permission from users to process their data for ad targeting and urging local users to join the action seeking collective redress for Facebook privacy violations in the form of compensation.