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04.10.2024

CJEU: Meta must "minimise" use of personal data for ads

In today's ruling in C-446/21 (Schrems v. Meta), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has fully backed a lawsuit brought against Meta, over its Facebook service.

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25.09.2024
Online & Mobile tracking

Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature

noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser which tracks user behaviour on websites.

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12.09.2024
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

noyb WIN: Belgian DPA “settlement” turned into proper legal orders on deceptive cookie banners

We won a case against Belgian news company Mediahuis. Four major news websites must adapt their currently deceptive cookie banners

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29.08.2024
Profiling & Automated Decision Making

Unsere Wasserkraft & KSV 1870: Clean electricity only after a dirty credit check?

Unsere Wasserkraft rejects people as customers based on automated credit rankings. noyb now filed a complaint

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22.08.2024
Data Security

noyb files two complaints against EU Parliament over massive data breach

The breach in the EU Parliament's recruitment platform affected the personal data of more than 8,000 people

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13.08.2024
Data Subject Rights

8 Years of GDPR: Greek supermarket’s Loyalty Card still not compliant

noyb has filed a complaint against Greek supermarket Alfa Vita (AB)

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Media Coverage

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EU hits Meta with record €1.2B privacy fine
U.S. tech giant Meta has been hit with a record €1.2 billion fine for not complying with the EU’s privacy rulebook.

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Apple hits back at European activist complaints against tracking tool

An Austrian privacy advocacy group drew a strongly critical response from Apple on Monday after it said an online tracking tool used in its devices breached European law.

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101 Unternehmen leiten noch immer Daten an die USA weiter

Der Datenschutz-Verein noyb brachte 101 Beschwerden gegen den Datentransfer in die USA ein.

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ZDF Magazin Royale vom 10. Dezember 2021

Expertentalk mit Datenschützer und Facebookbezwinger Max Schrems

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Irish regulator proposes 36 mln euro Facebook privacy fine - document

The complaint, lodged by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, concerned the lawfulness of Facebook's processing of personal data, specifically around its terms of service.

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