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Germany's Facebook Order Will Be Studied by EU, Vestager Says
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The results of a German probe into Facebook Inc.’s user terms and website tracking will be studied with "great interest" by European Union regulators, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said after a Prague event.
"We study it with the same great interest because of the two legs" of the German decision "both that Facebook is a dominant player in this market but also how they interpret privacy rules," Vestager told Bloomberg News. "I don’t think that it can serve as a template" for EU action since the case sits "in the zone between competition law and privacy" and was partly based on German law.