Facebook's parent company has launched a new function of management of user accounts. German competition watchdog hailed it as a step towards better control.
Customers will be able to "for the first time decide largely freely and informed" whether they want to use its services "in isolation or link them to each other" The German Cartel Office had ordered Meta, still known as Facebook, in 2019 to stop merging user data collected through its subsidiaries and other websites unless users gave their consent. The social media giant had opposed the decision in the German courts.