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  • Meta (Facebook, Instagram) switching to "Legitimate Interest" for Ads

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    Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
    After noyb complaints, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is switching form an illegal contract to equally illegal "legitimate interests" for advertisement. noyb will take imminent action.
    … 100 … Meta (Facebook, Instagram) switching to "Legitimate … illegal practice As reported by the Wall Street Journal , Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is switching from an illegal … ("opt-in") for the use of personal data for advertisement, Meta (Facebook and Instagram) has tried to bypass this …
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  • Austrian DSB: Meta Tracking Tools Illegal

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    Data Transfers
    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.
    … 88 … Austrian DSB: Meta Tracking Tools Illegal In a groundbreaking decision in … of noyb.eu Illegal Data transfers via Facebook Login and Meta Pixel. The DSBs decision to declare Google Analytics … illegal , also applies to the "Facebook Login" and "Meta Pixel" tools provided by Meta: If these tools are used, …
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  • Data Protection Day: Are Europeans really protected?

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    European Data Protection Day commemorates the signing of the first European data protection framework in 1981. Today, the GDPR is meant to enable citizens to exercise their right to privacy.
    … action. It announced a fine of 390 million Euro and ordered Meta to obtain valid consent for personalized advertising . In these 4.5 years, the DPC has often sided with Meta and has now also issued a significantly reduced penalty …
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  • Just € 5,5 Million on WhatsApp. DPC finally gives the finger to EDPB.

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    Following Facebook and Instagram, a third decision on WhatsApp was issued. The DPC seems to have limited the case to "service improvement" and "security" - ignoring the core issues.
    … request to investigate matters like data sharing within Meta . As confirmed by the Irish DPC today, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has decided that Meta cannot force WhatsApp users to agree to the use of … years after the original complaints were filed by noyb , on Meta's bypass of the GDPR via a clause in the terms and …
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  • Irish Data Protection Authority gives € 3.97 billion present to Meta.

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    Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
    The DPC has turned a blind eye on the revenue generated by Meta from violating the GDPR since 2018. Ignoring the EDPB demand to include the unlawful revenue of Meta, reduced the fine by 3,97 Mrd EUR.
    … Data Protection Authority gives € 3.97 billion present to Meta? Authority allegedly unable to take financial benefit from Meta's GDPR violations into account. On 04.01.2023, the … Commission (DPC) announced a fine of € 390 million against Meta due to unlawful personalized advertising on Facebook …
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  • Meta Advertising Ban - Decision Published

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    Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
    You can now read the details of the DPC decision! It seems interesting times lie before us in the Courts!
    … 100 … The Irish DPC issued its final decision on Meta's illegal processing of user data for personal … on Facebook over transparency issues, the DPC only fined Meta € 60 million for their lack of any legal basis for the … decision, but we expect them to be largely similar. … If Meta may use consent (Issue 1 of the Decision) The DPC tries …
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  • BREAKING: Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertising

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    Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
    After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.
    … 100 … BREAKING: Meta (Facebook and Instagram) prohibited from using personal data for advertisement. Major blow to Meta's business model in Europe, following noyb litigation. Fine for Meta more than tenfold from € 28 million to € 390 million. …
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  • noyb win: Personalized Ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp declared illegal

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    Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
    The EDPB has decided that three Meta Apps (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) did not have a legal basis to process user data since May 2018. Meta's legal trick has been rejected.
    … 100 … … noyb complaints: Meta's business model declared illegal in the EU according … by The Wall Street Journal , the EDPB has decided that Meta cannot force users to agree to personalized ads. In May 2018, when the GDPR came into force in the EU, Meta Ireland Ltd. believed it could "bypass" the requirement …
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  • Legal Analysis: No non-material damages for GDPR violations?

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    Advocate General Sánchez-Bordona issued his Opinion on CJEU case C-300/21 (UI v. Österreichische Post AG), the first of several preliminary ruling requests on the topic of damages for GDPR violations
    … nos. 25 and 37 when holding that retention of communication meta data can lead to self-censorship and hence limit of the …
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