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

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 explicit consent from users. While Facebook is still free to gather data about Instagram users and WhatsApp users, this data cannot be automatically combined with data gathered via a users' Facebook account. See also: Now you can unsend messages in Facebook Messenger Snopes ends its fact-checking partnership with Facebook Insiders say Mark… [Continue Reading]