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Competition problem to Facebooks superprofiling of customers sparks referral to Europes high courtroom

A German courtroom that’s considering Facebook’s attraction in opposition to a pioneering pro-privacy order by means of the country’s competition authority to stop combining shopper wisdom without consent has discussed it will refer inquiries to Europe’s high courtroom. In a press release at this time the Düsseldorf courtroom…
A German court that’s considering Facebook’s appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the country’s competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europe’s top court. In a press release today the Düsseldorf court…

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  2. "A week after Facebook grabbed eyeballs globally by blocking news publishers and turning off news-sharing on its platform in Australia, the countrys parliament has approved legislation that makes it mandatory for platform giants like Facebook and Google to negotiate to remunerate local news p". (February 25, 2021)
  3. "The UKs competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebooks purchase of Giphy has a realistic prospect of substantially lessening competition by March 25, it said today, as it continues to scrutinize the acquisition". (January 28, 2021)
  4. "Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.s competition watchdog". (April 1, 2021)
  5. "Europe has greenlit Googles $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of health and wellness data following months of regulatory scrutiny of the deal". (December 17, 2020)
  6. "Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a T&Cs change, appear to also be generating some uplift for end-to-end encrypted email providers". (January 14, 2021)
  7. "Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary)". (December 8, 2020)
  8. "Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australias Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes". (December 16, 2020)
  9. "Labor activists challenging Uber over what they allege are robo-firings of drivers in Europe have trumpeted winning a default judgement in the Netherlands where the Court of Amsterdam ordered the ride-hailing giant to reinstate six drivers who the litigants claim were unfairly". (April 14, 2021)
  10. "Facebooks dating bolt-on to its eponymous social networking service has finally launched in Europe, more than nine months after an earlier launch plan was derailed at the last minute over privacy concerns". (October 22, 2020)
  11. "Following the landmark CJEU Schrems II ruling in July, which invalidated the four-year-old EU-US Privacy Shield, European data protection regulators have today published 38-pages of guidancefor businesses stuck trying to navigate the uncertainty around how to (legally) transfer perso". (November 11, 2020)
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