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August 28, 2019 12:45 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QJKAzHSm0KM/facebook-succeeds-in-blocking-german-fcos-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. TechCrunch reports: Pioneering because the antitrust regulator had liaised with EU privacy authorities during a long-running investigation of Facebook's data-gathering activities -- leading it to conclude that Facebook's conduct in the German market where it also deemed it to hold a monopoly position amounted to "exploitative abuse." The Bundeskartellamt (FCO) order had been likened to a structural separation of Facebook's businesses at the data level. Facebook appealed, delaying application of the order, and today's ruling by the Dusseldorf court grants a suspension (press release in German) -- essentially kicking the matter into very long legal grass.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/QJKAzHSm0KM/facebook-succeeds-in-blocking-german-fcos-privacy-minded-order-against-combining-user-data
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