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The day after the FTC and dozens of Attorneys General filed two separate suits against Facebook over it anticompetitive track record, the company’s being slammed with yet another antitrust probe this time, from Germany’s antitrust regulator. Specifically, the country’s Federal Cartel Office (otherwise known as The Bundeskartellamt) announced plans to investigate the tie between Oculus’s virtual reality hardware and Facebook’s social network.
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The day after the FTC and dozens of Attorneys General filed two separate suits against Facebook over it anticompetitive track record, the company’s being slammed with yet another antitrust probe this time, from Germany’s antitrust regulator. Specifically, the country’s Federal Cartel Office (otherwise known as The Bundeskartellamt) announced plans to investigate the tie between Oculus’s virtual reality hardware and Facebook’s social network.
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Just to give a brief recap, one of the reasons that the Facebook-owned company recently landed on the shit lists of privacy advocates and VR enthusiasts alike was the company’s recent move to require Oculus users log in with their Facebook accounts. As the company announced back in August, VR-heads will have until 2023 before support for all Oculus-specific accounts gets cut off for good.