Facebook's data collection has been hit by Germany's anti-trust crackdown
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Acebook said it would appeal the landmark ruling of the Federal Cartel Office on Thursday, the culmination of a three-year investigation that said the regulator underestimated the competition it faced and undermined European-wide privacy rules that came into force last year.
"In the future, Facebook will no longer allow its users to agree to collect and distribute non-Facebook data to their Facebook accounts almost unrestricted," said Andrea Asmond, director of the Cartel Office. The results follow intense Facebook censorship through a series of privacy failures, including the leak of data from tens of millions of Facebook users and the widespread use of targeted advertising by foreign forces trying to influence American elections.
Cartel's office opposes, in particular, Facebook's efforts to access data from third-party applications -- including its own WhatsApp and Instagram services -- and who it tracks online, even without members.
This includes tracking visitors and sites embedded in Facebook's "like" or "share" buttons - and pages where observers exist even without obvious signs of social networks. The ruling has no legal effect, Facebook has a month to appeal, and the social network says it will.
"We disagree with their conclusions and intend to appeal so that Germans can continue to benefit fully from all our services," Facebook said in a blog post.
"Bundeskartellamt underestimated the fierce competition we face in Germany, misunderstood our compliance with GDP R, and threatened the mechanisms provided by European law to ensure consistent data protection standards in the EU."
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