Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook attacked Germany’s competition watchdog for taking an “all-or-nothing approach” conflating data protection and antitrust law to seek an unprecedented overhaul of the firm’s business model.
The Federal Cartel Office’s strategy led to a “clearly flawed” decision in 2019 targeting the social-media giant’s business practices, lawyers for Meta told the
“The Federal Cartel Office, based on its misguided all-or-nothing approach conducted only an incomplete and skewed data protection assessment,”