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Swedish bank Swedbank falsely claims that the logic behind the automatic interest rate calculation is a "trade secret"

The German DPAs still haven't decided in the cases against the use of political microtargeting by German political parties

WetterOnline shares the personal data of its users with more than 800 third-party companies for advertising purposes

The DPC refused to comply with a binding decision by the EDPB. Instead, the DPC sued the EDPB before the European Courts. The case can now be appealed to the CJEU

European data protection authorities almost never impose fines for GDPR violations

Trump paralysed the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB), a key element of the EU-US data transfer deal that allows EU-US data flows.

Given that China is an authoritarian surveillance state, companies can’t realistically shield EU users’ data from access by the Chinese government

The authority wanted to allow a maximum of two complaints per month per complainant. The CJEU has rejected this limit

Ryanair forces new customers to create an account. Also, they must go through a mandatory verification process that can involve facial recognition.

Netflix was fined €4.75 Million based on a noyb complaint from 2019

EDPS issues decision finding that the European Commission has illegally targeted advertising at citizens

If users refuse to give their consent, BeReal asks them over and over again until they give in

noyb is now approved as so-called "Qualified Entity" to bring collective redress actions in courts throughout the European Union

noyb welcomes yesterday's leading decision of the German Federal Court of Justice in a Facebook case

In the battle over the illegal use of personal data for advertisement, Meta has announced another variation: This time Meta will try "less personalized" ads, which may annoy users into consenting.

noyb has filed a complaint against Pinterest with the French data protection authority (CNIL)

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.

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.

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