German competition watchdog toys with ban on some Facebook data-slurps

German competition watchdog toys with ban on some Facebook data-slurps

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/14/facebook_competition_data/

Germany's competition authority is reportedly poised to ban a chunk of Facebook's user data collection activities.

The German paper Bild am Sonntag revealed the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) is to hand down its final ruling in a long-running inquiry into the Social Network's data-slurping.