Several provisions of the Spanish gambling advertising ban have been invalidated through a decision of the Supreme Court that might have an echo effect in other European jurisdictions that adopted similar restrictions.ย
The modalities of collection of individuals' consent and processing of personal data through cookies performed by a well-known social media was challenged by the Spanish authority that issued a privacy related fine against the company.
Spain adopted its data protection act implementing the GDPR which led to interesting surprises as its contents are quite different from those of other EU Member States.