{"id":1427,"date":"2019-06-28T09:09:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2019-06-28T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T09:09:37","slug":"antitrust-regulators-may-also-scrutinize-internet-firms-cryptocurrencies-german-cartel-chief-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"Antitrust regulators may also scrutinize internet firms&#8217; cryptocurrencies: German cartel chief &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-crypto-germany\/antitrust-regulators-may-also-scrutinize-internet-firms-cryptocurrencies-german-cartel-chief-idUSKCN1TS162\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/40e1ef45066977aaf91eee2741bae44626afd2d27012d32aa00670587f0a28b0.png\" class=\"image-treated\" data-original=\"https:\/\/s3.reutersmedia.net\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20190627&amp;t=2&amp;i=1402008943&amp;r=LYNXNPEF5Q0QM&amp;w=1280\" data-treated=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/40e1ef45066977aaf91eee2741bae44626afd2d27012d32aa00670587f0a28b0.png\" \/><\/a>BONN, Germany (Reuters) &#8211; Cryptocurrencies backed by big internet companies could come under the scrutiny of antitrust regulators, the head of Germany\u2019s Federal Cartel Office said on Thursday after Facebook last week launched its own version.Central bankers and financial watchdogs were quick to raise concerns about Facebook\u2019s planned Libra global cryptocurrency, saying that it could become so pervasive as to disrupt the global monetary policy framework.Germany\u2019s antitrust watchdog\u2019s president Andreas Mundt, who has pursued the world\u2019s largest social network over other areas of its business, told reporters that cryptocurrencies launched by companies like Facebook \u201ccould become a topic for us\u201d.Mundt has taken Facebook to task over its handling of data collected from users of the social network and its messaging apps without their consent, finding the firm founded by CEO Mark Zuckerberg abused its market dominance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-crypto-germany\/antitrust-regulators-may-also-scrutinize-internet-firms-cryptocurrencies-german-cartel-chief-idUSKCN1TS162\">Antitrust regulators may also scrutinize internet firms&#8217; cryptocurrencies: German cartel chief &#8211; Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BONN, Germany (Reuters) &#8211; Cryptocurrencies backed by big internet companies could come under the scrutiny of antitrust regulators, the head of Germany\u2019s Federal Cartel Office said on Thursday after Facebook last week launched its own version.Central bankers and financial watchdogs were quick to raise concerns about Facebook\u2019s planned Libra global cryptocurrency, saying that it could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,13,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}