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

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2019-08-26T10:33:38-06:00

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 …