Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, the country’s antitrust regulator) has ruled that Facebook can’t combine user data aggregated from different sources (Facebook usage data, data from pages with Facebook Like buttons, data purchased from third parties, etc), because users can’t reasonably anticipate the way these different datastreams might be combined, nor the kinds of inferences that could be gleaned thereby.
Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps
Lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped
Most Facebook users don’t know their interests are tracked for ad targeting, Pew study finds
Most Facebook users have no idea how the company tracks and profiles everything they do to target ads, a new Pew Research
The European Parliament is meeting this week, and the committee that will decide the future of the controversial new
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