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German official calls for government bodies to close Facebook pages

Data commissioner Ulrich Kelber tells authorities GDPR standards are not being met

Germany’s data protection commissioner has called for all government bodies to remove their Facebook pages by the end of the year, arguing that the social media giant failed to comply with German and European privacy laws.

Commissioner Ulrich Kelber told German authorities in a recent letter that nearly two years of negotiations with Facebook have failed to make any progress, and that organisations’ pages on the platform therefore did not meet European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The move comes as pressure from European regulators on Big Tech intensifies. Last week, Germany’s antitrust watchdog launched an investigation into Apple, after similar probes into Facebook, Google and Amazon.

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