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Facebook pauses sales oculus quest due8/16/2023 ![]() “The fact that Facebook has resorted to various legal remedies is not surprising in view of the significance which our proceedings have for the group's business model," Mundt said. ![]() The Duesseldorf case is currently scheduled to be heard March 26. Meantime, other appeals are also underway and Facebook still has not had to comply with the Bundeskartellamt's orders, the agency said. The main proceedings in Duesseldorf are still pending, however, and Facebook has said it will continue to defend its position that there is no antitrust abuse. In June, the Federal Court of Justice, a top appeals court, dealt Facebook a blow, overturning the Duesseldorf court's stay order while agreeing with the Bundeskartellamt that Facebook's terms of use leave “private Facebook users with no choice.” It said the company had to comply with the regulators. It gave Facebook several months to stop collecting data and combining it with Facebook users' accounts without their consent.įacebook appealed that decision, and a Duesseldorf court ruled it did not have to comply with the regulations until the case had been decided. Last year, the Bundeskartellamt determined Facebook was exploiting its dominance in social media to better target advertisements, by forcing users to share data from other Facebook-owned services including WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as third-party websites through the “Like” and “Share” buttons. It is also not the first time Facebook has run afoul of the German antitrust authorities. The German investigation comes just a day after US regulators sued the social network, accusing it of abusing its market power and seeking remedies that could include a forced spinoff of Facebook's prized Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services. The company, which acquired Oculus in 2014, also rebranded Oculus Connect as Facebook Connect and changed the name of its virtual reality team from Oculus Research to Facebook Reality Labs. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Face Outage in Parts of the World.
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