Germany bans Facebook from combining user data collected from Instagram and WhatsApp

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By Mark Wycislik-WilsonFeb 7, 2019, 5:56 am182 pts
The German cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt, has imposed new restrictions on how Facebook processes the data it gathers about users of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Germany's antitrust watchdog has hit the social network with a ban on combining user data it gathers from different sources, unless it has…

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