vzbv v Meta Platforms Ireland Limited — Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, 24 June 2026

The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court has stayed a German model declaratory action arising from the 2018–2019 Facebook data-scraping incident and referred six questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union. The reference seeks clarification on whether a consumer association may establish the basis and amount of GDPR compensation claims without an individual mandate from each affected user, and whether one court may exercise jurisdiction over claims concerning Facebook users throughout Germany. Read the court’s order or consult the official case-status page.