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Germany hits Facebook for data collection
On 19 December 2017 the Bundeskartellamt informed Facebook of its preliminary legal assessment in the abuse of dominance proceeding it had initiated in March 2016. The Bundeskartellamt found that Facebook held a dominant position in the German market for social networks and was abusing this position through its collection and use of users’ data from third party sources. The preliminary assessment is interesting due to the novel application of the concept of unfair business terms to personal data.
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