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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. https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1275472392496824320
Here is a tweet from Feb 2019 on the original and important decision. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1093489177948241920?s=20
Some key parts of the decision. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1096451820438851589?s=20
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. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1103386524232622080?s=20
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... https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1134589280695795712?s=20
Here is an English translation of the German decision last year for those wanting to dig deeper. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1149345580159766529?s=20
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 https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1002296648041672704?s=20
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 https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1002296648041672704?s=20
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. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opinion/facebook-integration.html
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.
