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Decision by Austrian DPA in noyb case: Data of millions of Austrians have to be deleted

noyb filed a series of complaints against several German political parties. The parties had used microtargeting on Facebook during the 2021 federal election and targeted potential voters.

Contradictory Decision: Traffic and location data are particularly sensitive data that require additional protection, at the same time they are not personal data at all?!

Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR and the so-called “Schrems II” decision on transatlantic data flows.

noyb filed a series of complaints against websites and data brokers that did not correctly address access requests using cookies as an authentication factor.

Two years ago, noyb filed a GDPR complaint against credit data broker KSV 1870. The Austrian credit reporting agency was storing unsolicited data from previously unknown individuals.