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The Bundeskartellament, Germany's cartel office, alleged that the social network may breach data protection and competition laws.

Brazilian police detained a senior Facebook Inc. executive on Tuesday. This is due to an increased dispute over a court's order to provide the data from WhatsApp that would help in secretive drug-trafficking investigation.

Facebook now faces a censorship lawsuit in France On Friday, a Parisian court ruled that social media giant, Facebook, can be sued in France. The reason behind this was because of their decision to remove the account of a user who posted a photograph of a famous nude painting that hails from the 19th century.