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IT company illegally collected data on 98% of Maltese voters, including their political preferences.

In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR.

The EDPS issued a decision confirming that the European Parliament violated EU data protection law on its COVID website by setting Google and Stripe cookies, among other violations.

noyb has filed a complaint against Amazon because of their dubious e-recruiting practices on their Mechanical Turk platform. Amazon uses automated decision-making to accept or reject workers.

Complaint against Airbnb: The online market place for vacation rentals downgraded the complainant’s rating as a host, solely through automated decision making.

In today's Advent Reading, we will discussFacebook's 86 page "Transfer Impact Assessment" that ignores two CJEU rulings.

For the privacy geeks, that want to know more than what we have summarized in our 4th Advent Reading, we provide a deeper dive on this page on the four elements of Facebook's TIA.

Today, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposed a fine of 65 Mio NOK (€ 6.34 Mio or $ 7.17 Mio) on Grindr. The LGBTQI dating app had not received valid consent from users, but had been sharing

In our third advent reading we dive into Facebook's "Record of Processing Activities" and why it is a (bad) joke at best.

We are looking for the 4,000 remaining active "Target Leaks" users and hope they consider donating their Facebook targeting data to noyb.

In our second Advent Reading, we take a Charles Dickens approach to EDPB documents, showing how the DPC has lobbied the EDPB in Facebook's interest to allow their "GDPR bypass".

Our First "Advent Reading" focuses on the right to access to documents and Facebook’s attempts to suppress documents and undermined the right to be heard of others.

DPC demanded noyb to sign an "non-disclosure agreement" benefiting Facebook and the DPC in direct exchange for granting noyb procedural rights. We now filed a corruption report.

According to Austrian DPA phone provider A1 can refuse to provide information since data on the cell phone is not "personal". noyb appeals decision.

Complaint against Grindr: in order for users to access their data, Grindr requires users to identify in maybe the most grotesque way imaginable:

Another complaint against Amazon Europe: a customer made an access request to find out why he was denied certain payment options; he did not receive a reply.

Diverting direct marketing data to assess creditworthiness is unlawful and needs to stop. noyb filed a complaint against CRIF Bürgel and Acxiom who have been engaging in such practices.

We have invited the DPC to continue this debate in courts, as there is no legal basis for censoring a non-profit when criticizing an authority.

Schrems: “Decision undermines key element of GDPR.”

In internal news: noyb is hiring lawyers and developers!