BRUSSELS, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Europe's top court on Friday

sided with Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems in his privacy

dispute with Meta Platforms ( META ).

Schrems had taken his grievance to an Austrian court, saying

he had been targeted by advertisements directed at homosexuals

as a result of Meta's personalised advertising based on

processing of personal data.

The court subsequently sought guidance from the

Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).

"An online social network such as Facebook cannot use all of

the personal data obtained for the purposes of targeted

advertising, without restriction as to time and without

distinction as to type of data," the CJEU said, referring to

Meta's social network Facebook.

Schrems has taken Meta to court a number of times for

alleged breaches of the EU's privacy law known as the General

Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The case is C-446/21 Schrems (Communication of data to the

general public.