HUGE!!! watch this in Germany. The court has now ruled Facebook has to stop collecting and using data *across* its apps (FB, Insta, WhatsApp) and broader web (millions of sites)...importantly due to its dominance/antitrust...while it awaits appeal of decision lost Feb 2019.
Here is a tweet from Feb 2019 on the original and important decision.
Some key parts of the decision.
Note, this decision likely caused Zuckerberg and Facebook to accelerate its move to merge Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp despite the Facebook / blue brand approaching toxic to the public (and now advertisers). @sarahfrier covered this well.
here is where @beynate reads from this exact decision at International Grand Committee hearing last Fall. When he asked the Facebook witness about it, it was a near disaster for Facebook. It's worth the watch...
Here is an English translation of the German decision last year for those wanting to dig deeper.
This was 2+ years ago. An update...
1) fined $5B
2) this thread
3) 1st decision pending
4) MIA (see capitalism)
5) underway
6) added 13, now 48 state AGs
7) report pending? @ICOnews
8) hello @vestager
9)...
10) see #StopHateForProfit @slpng_giants
1) fined $5B
2) this thread
3) 1st decision pending
4) MIA (see capitalism)
5) underway
6) added 13, now 48 state AGs
7) report pending? @ICOnews
8) hello @vestager
9)...
10) see #StopHateForProfit @slpng_giants
and finally back to this decision, @Sally_Hubbard wrote a smart @nytopinion last year on how this German decision may point to ways to break up Facebook without breaking them up as they essentially have to treat component parts arms-length. nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opi…
ps this decision no doubt worries Google, too. It is directly applicable to Google's leveraging data across its monopoly into other component businesses as @ProfFionasm whitepaper covered and @JuliaAngwin has reported on as it happened.
