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'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy

09 April 2024 / article /
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

How do pay or consent systems work and what are the issues? Max Schrems explains it all in this explainer video

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SecureDrop

02 April 2024 / page

We are committed to enhancing freedom, democracy and consumer protection in the digital sphere. Therefore, we use SecureDrop to protect people who make the public aware of unlawful corporate and institutional behavior.

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"Pay or Okay": 1,500 € a year for your online privacy?

19 March 2024 / article /
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

Should “Pay or Okay” be legitimised for Meta, companies across all industries could follow its lead. But what’s the current situation in the member states?

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Swedish data brokers claim journalists’ legal protection to evade EU law

14 March 2024 / article /
National Administrative Procedures and DPA inactivity

Thanks to a loophole in national law, data brokers can exempt their business from EU privacy law. This enables the uncontrolled sale of the personal data of millions of people in Sweden

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28 NGOs urge EU DPAs to reject “Pay or Okay” on Meta

16 February 2024 / article /
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will soon issue what is likely to be its most significant opinion to date

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German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation

16 February 2024 / article /
Credit Scoring

The comapny uses manipulative designs to prevent people from obtaining a free copy of their data in accordance with law

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German DPA declares data trading between credit agency and address trader illegal

05 February 2024 / article /
Credit Scoring

noyb win in proceedings against the credit reference agency CRIF and the address trader Acxiom in Germany

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Data Protection Day: 74% of insiders see ‘relevant violations’ at most companies

28 January 2024 / article

noyb conducted a survey among more than 1000 data protection professionals working in European companies

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Meta ignores the users’ right to easily withdraw consent

11 January 2024 / article /
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscription

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Creditors' association earns millions with (actually) cost-free GDPR rights

04 January 2024 / article /
Credit Scoring

KSV1870 uses misleading website designs to urge people to purchase a high-priced "InfoPass" instead of getting a free copy of their data

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GDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads

14 December 2023 / article /
Political Microtargeting, Manipulation & Tracking

X enabled the illegal political micro-targeting used by the EU Commission

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CJEU landmark rulings on “credit ranking” and review of DPAs

07 December 2023 / article /
Credit Scoring

The CJEU issued two judgments with far-reaching consequences for the credit ranking business and judicial review of DPAs

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noyb sues CRIF and AZ Direct for illegal and secret data processing

04 December 2023 / article /
Credit Scoring

noyb is suing for injunctive relief and damages, among other things.

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noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”

28 November 2023 / article /
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR

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noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads

16 November 2023 / article /
Political Microtargeting, Manipulation & Tracking

The EU Commission used micro-targeting to promote its child sexual abuse legislation. This violated european privacy law

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Address trader sues German DPA to prevent noyb from accessing files

24 October 2023 / article /
Credit Scoring

noyb asked the Hessian authority for access to the case file of the Acxiom complaint. The address trader filed an interim injunction against the authority

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Streaming service DAZN took almost five years to answer a simple access request

09 October 2023 / article /
Data Subject Rights

Under the GDPR, companies have one month to answer access requests. DAZN took almost five years

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Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach

03 October 2023 / article /
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass

In order to bypass the GDPR, Meta apparently plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach

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€ 5,8 million fine for Grindr confirmed

29 September 2023 / article /
Online & Mobile tracking

The Norwegian Privacy Appeals Board (Personvernnemnda) today announced that it upholds the Norwegian DPA’s fine of NOK 65 million (approximately € 5,8 million).

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