Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram will not be able to share data in Germany

Since May there has been a new law in Europe on the privacy and treatment of personal data. Something that affects many companies, such as Facebook. In this sense, Germany is one of the countries that works the most on these laws, as the social network has noted. Since it is known that access data is shared with other of its apps such as WhatsApp and Instagram. But Germany puts a brake on this.

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram will not be able to share data in Germany

Since yesterday it was announced that the Federal Antimonopoly Office has prohibited the social network from combining user data from these different sources.

Germany stops Facebook

As they have said from the German Federal Antimonopoly Office, this is an abuse of the dominant position. Because the construction of the combined databases has earned it a weight it shouldn't have in the market, boosting other social networks with fewer users. Therefore, each of your applications would have to have a separate database. So each must be used individually.

Although Facebook has defended itself against these accusations. Because they claim that being popular with users does not mean that they are dominant in the market. In addition, they affirm that combining these data helps to better protect them.

But the social network meets a major ultimatum from Germany. They have a month to stop sharing this data. In the event that it is not done, Facebook faces various consequences, which have not been disclosed.

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