02-03-2016 13:25 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Germany takes on Facebook in first-ever competition probe

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's cartel office is investigating Facebook for suspected abuse of market power over breaches of data protection laws in the first formal probe of the social network for violating competition rules. The watchdog said it suspected that Facebook's terms of service with its users regarding how the company makes use of their data may abuse the company's possibly dominant position in the social networking market. Facebook, the world's biggest social network
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