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"Germany blocks Facebook from merging user data without consent"
Regulators cracks down on combining information from separate platforms in landmark decision
"Germany’s antitrust watchdog on Thursday blocked Facebook from pooling data collected from its social platforms and third-party websites without user consent in a landmark decision on internet privacy rights.
The Federal Cartel Office is cracking down on what it described as the Silicon Valley company’s “practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data” to users’ accounts.
In a press conference on Thursday morning in Bonn, the German authorities said that Facebook needs users’ “voluntary consent” to pool data collected on its messaging service WhatsApp and its photo sharing service Instagram with its own Facebook user data.
Facebook also requires consent to collect data from third-party websites outside of its own ecosystem. “If consent is not given . . . Facebook will have to substantially restrict its collection and combination of data,” the cartel office said in a press statement released on Thursday morning.
The ruling is the result of an antitrust probe into potential market abuse by Facebook which started almost three years ago."
https://www.ft.com/content/3a0351b6...egmentId=3d08be62-315f-7330-5bbd-af33dc531acb
It must be nice to live somewhere that citizens have more rights than multi-billion tax-dodging corporations.
Regulators cracks down on combining information from separate platforms in landmark decision
"Germany’s antitrust watchdog on Thursday blocked Facebook from pooling data collected from its social platforms and third-party websites without user consent in a landmark decision on internet privacy rights.
The Federal Cartel Office is cracking down on what it described as the Silicon Valley company’s “practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data” to users’ accounts.
In a press conference on Thursday morning in Bonn, the German authorities said that Facebook needs users’ “voluntary consent” to pool data collected on its messaging service WhatsApp and its photo sharing service Instagram with its own Facebook user data.
Facebook also requires consent to collect data from third-party websites outside of its own ecosystem. “If consent is not given . . . Facebook will have to substantially restrict its collection and combination of data,” the cartel office said in a press statement released on Thursday morning.
The ruling is the result of an antitrust probe into potential market abuse by Facebook which started almost three years ago."
https://www.ft.com/content/3a0351b6...egmentId=3d08be62-315f-7330-5bbd-af33dc531acb
It must be nice to live somewhere that citizens have more rights than multi-billion tax-dodging corporations.
No one is forced to use social media.
The Force is strong.
Does the EU attitude to social media explain a pro-Brexit stance of social media?
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And what is the relevance of that remark?
Is the abuse of citizens justified when usage is not compulsory?
If they have operated in accordance with their published terms and conditions, is it "abuse"?
So you believe it is.
If it helps you, believe what you like.
I believe that, where someone willingly signs up to a platform and agrees to the rules of that platform, that is not "abuse".
Therefore, your question is worded so as to be invalid, in the context of my post.
You are making the point that Ts&Cs override citizens rights.
Depending on the law of the country you are in, this is not always the case.
We will, for now, disregard the fact that Ts&Cs can be constructed so that the citizen is discouraged from knowing what they are, and that "Informed Consent" or "Positive Consent" are not the same as "Assumed Consent."
Would we be justified, for now, in assuming that you have a link to the citizens' right or rights that have been, in this case, overridden?
Have a look at this page
https://guce.oath.com/collectConsen...df65ae-5405-4333-93b9-a58fb0480eef&lang=en-GB
Let's suppose you have not signed up to Amazon, or Doubleclick, or Ebay.
But you have made an internet search to read a news item.
Have you consented to Amazon, Doubleclick and Ebay loading cookies onto your PC, or watching you so they can bombard you with adverts? Or make money by selling your data to unknown parties?
Now look at https://policies.oath.com/ie/en/oath/privacy/adinfo/index.html
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What choices do I have?
- Manage interest-based advertising categories or opt out of all categories from Oath."
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