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Andreas Mundt, president of Germany's Federal Cartel Office, says "Facebook obtains very detailed profiles of its users and knows what they are doing online" by merging data from a number of sources. Mundt announced the antitrust watchdog's findings in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday. Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters hide caption

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Biometric data is considered a special category requiring explicit consent under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation law, which goes into effect Friday. JaysonPhotography/Dermalog Identification Systems GmbH via AP hide caption

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3 Things You Should Know About Europe's Sweeping New Data Privacy Law

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