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Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by aritmo on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:42AM (#21729018)
How would this be enforced?

Is the Play Store going to remove those apps from the devices that are located in Germany?

Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by Beldin on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:51AM (#21729055)
Under this ruling, Facebook may no longer offer its apps in their current form in the German version of the Google Play store.

As the article remarks, the case doesn't involve core functionality of any of the apps, and FB claims to have compliant versions of their apps ready in case RIM seeks to have the provisional ruling enforced. (They can, but only if they pay 1.6 mil caution in case they lose in FB's appeal).

So, FB would only have to push an update for each app. Not doing so would clearly fall afoul of this ruling.

Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by Tomte on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:51AM (#21729054)
The court hits Facebook with ever-increasing fines, if it doesn't comply.

But we're not there, yet, this order is preliminary. And Facebook has said they would rather comply than pull the apps altogether.

Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by ce4 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:53AM (#21729059)
Blackberry would have to deposit a security of 1-1.6M € for each of the nine cases and then Facebook will have to comply and make said apps unavailable in the app stores.