Facebook succeeds in blocking German FCO’s privacy-minded order against combining user data

Facebook succeeds in blocking German FCO’s privacy-minded order against combining user data


Facebook has succeeded in blocking a pioneering order by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office earlier this year that would have banned it from combining data on users across its own suite of social platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — without their consent. Pioneering because the antitrust regulator had liaised with EU privacy authorities during a […]


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August 27, 2019 at 02:00AM

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