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Antitrust case in opposition to Facebooks tremendous profiling again on observe after German federal court docket ruling

A landmark regulatory intervention that seeks to use structural antitrust treatments to chop massive (advert)tech’s rights-hostile surveillance enterprise fashions right down to measurement has been revived after Germany’s federal court docket overturned an earlier ruling that had suspended enforcement of a ban on Face…
A landmark regulatory intervention that seeks to apply structural antitrust remedies to cut big (ad)tech’s rights-hostile surveillance business models down to size has been revived after Germany’s federal court overturned an earlier ruling that had suspended enforcement of a ban on Face…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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