The case focused on Meta collecting Facebook users’ activity data, on and off the social media platform, as well as other Meta services like Whatsapp, for targeted advertising purposes. Germany’s competition authority, the German Federal Cartel Office, banned Meta from data collection without Facebook users’ consent, out of concern Facebook was abusing its market position. National authorities, examining competition cases, may also check compliance with EU data privacy regulations, When investigating a company’s abuse of market dominance, regulations outside of competition law may also be used such as data privacy. Is the constitution killing marketing businesses for the big tech companies ?