The Federal Cartel Office ("BKartA") has imposed
far-reaching restrictions on Facebook Inc. and Facebook Germany
GmbH ("Facebook") with respect to their processing of
user data.
The BKartA requests Facebook to grant users the option of
consenting to group-wide data processing in accordance with the
GDPR instead of using general terms and conditions to justify such
processing. Due to its prevailing market power in Germany, Facebook
supposingly drafted these terms too rigidly, thus restricting users
too heavily in an inadmissible manner.
Facebook, on the other hand, is of the opinion that the BKartA
is misapplying competition law by imposing special requirements
that would only apply to a single company.
