The court granted the PI and prohibited the use of the data until a decision is issued in the main proceedings.
The court did not comment on the substantive legal issues at stake, especially a potential DMA infringement. Rather, it based its decision primarily on the fact that there was a particular urgency due to the irreversibility of the data exchange. In addition, the plaintiff's overall conduct sufficiently indicated that he did not consent to the merging and use of his data. The court stated that the plaintiff's objection to the data processing had been made sufficiently clear and that it was not apparent to the court why the defendant did not intend to comply with this objection even though it had communicated to the Dutch Data Protection Authority that it would respect users' objections. Taking this into account, it was also unclear to the court what objections Meta would still be willing to raise in the case.