More trouble ahead for Facebook, in European territory. This time it is Germany to accuse the most used social network in the world, guilty according to the German Antitrust that it abused its dominant position on the market, with a ruling that questions how Mark Zuckerberg's giant has violated the laws on the protection of personal data by drawing on third-party sources. Presenting the preliminary findings of the investigation launched 20 months ago, the Federal Antitrust Office concluded that Facebook has abused a dominant position among social networks by opposing the social network to obtain access to third-party data, through WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as with the monitoring of the sites to which users access.
"Above all we see problems in the collection of data outside the social network and their inclusion in the Facebook account," said the president of the Antitrust Andreas Mundt. Facebook has responded to the allegations by claiming that report 'paints an inaccurate picture of Facebook' but ensuring cooperation. “Even though we are popular in Germany, we are not dominant,” commented the head of data protection, Yvonne Cunnane, in a blog post by her.
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