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Facebook halts Oculus Quest sales in Germany amid privacy concerns

In a statement provided to Heise Online, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said, in part:

Both the HCDPFIand Germany's Federal Cartel Office made it clear to Heise that they were not currently in discussions with Facebook on this matter. But the Cartel Office has previously gone after the company for merging user data from a variety of sources without the user's active consent.

It seems clear that Facebook is using its market-leading position within the VR industry to bully users into providing data about themselves.

The danger for users is that the small amount of data Facebook currently claims to collect from headsets will be widened in the future; with the emergence of social VR platforms such as Facebook Horizons.

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