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"The
German authority is concerned that Facebook may have forced its
users to accept privacy terms that aren't in line with the data
protection rules," Vestager said in the text of a speech to be
delivered at a conference in Copenhagen.
"But as our German colleagues rightly point out, even if
Facebook has broken those rules, that doesn't automatically mean
that it has also broken the competition rules as well," she
said.
The German government has been critical of Facebook in the past
while political leaders and regulators have also complained that
the world's largest social network, with 1.6 billion monthly
users, had been slow to tackle hate speech and anti-immigrant
messages.
Facebook raised regulatory concerns last month when it loosened
the privacy policy of WhatsApp, the world's most popular mobile
messaging application, prompting the chair of Europe's leading
group of privacy regulators to say that it would closely
scrutinize the move. [nL8N1BA3O8]
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; editing by Philip Blenkinsop)
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