DC:
Facebook is facing legal action in Germany over antitrust violations for the platform’s abusive market dominance by collecting data on its users without their consent or knowledge.
Germany’s antitrust watchdog, the Federal Cartel Office (FCO), is reportedly expected to begin its probe against Facebook sometime later in 2018, Reuters reported Monday. The cartel office began its investigation in March 2016, according to Reuters.
The FCO published its preliminary assessment Dec. 19, 2017, stating Facebook is abusing its “dominant position by making the use of its social network conditional on its being allowed to limitlessly amass every kind of data generated by using third-party websites and merge it with the user’s Facebook account.”
The office objects to Facebook collecting information on its users from its third-party apps, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, and its online tracking of people who aren’t members of its services.
“We are conscious that this should, and must, go quickly,” Andreas Mundt, president of the Federal Cartel Office, told a news conference Monday, according to Reuters. The probe isn’t expected to result in a fine. read more
With President Trump’s closing the doors of the “US Bank,” Mullah Merkel smells a new income source for Germanistan.
Sure you can trust your data when you put it out on the Internet. Trust that it will be sold and used to make money that is. Secure – not for long.
Germany has to get money to support all them muzzies somehow. Zuckie got plenty of it and deserves to be penalized for his continued destruction of free speech and the theft of personal information world wide. I would like to see the SOB so broke he has to sit on the corner with a tin cup begging for food money.
@moochoman:
and has to sell the tin cup.