Germany's competition authority opens investigation into FacebookMarch 2, 2016 - 14:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Germany's competition authority is investigating whether Facebook abused its market position by breaching data protection laws, the Associated Press reports. The Federal Cartel Office said in a statement Wednesday, March 2, that there is a "preliminary suspicion that Facebook's terms of use breached data protection rules." It says officials are examining whether there is a link between Facebook's dominant position in the market for social networking sites and the wording of its terms of use. The competition authority says Facebook demands users agree to terms that are "hard to comprehend" and there are "considerable doubts about the admissibility of this practice especially under the current national data protection law." The company was fined 100,000 euros ($109,000) by a Berlin court last month over intellectual property rules. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |