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€ 20 Mio Fine for Clearview AI in Italy

10 March 2022 / article

The company can no longer process biometric data of people in Italy and must delete all existing data.

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More Cookie Banners to go: Second wave of complaints underway

04 March 2022 / article /
Cookie Banners

noyb launched the second round of its action against deceptive cookie banners. The first wave already brought visible improvements in banner design.

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SecureDrop

01 March 2022 / 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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giropay knows what you bought last summer

25 February 2022 / article

The German payment service does not only process payment data, but each item of your shopping basket. They then put the blame for any unlawful data transfers on the shop operators.

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Data Protection Day: 41 Years of "Compliance on Paper"?!

23 January 2022 / article

The GDPR is a strong piece of legislation with, so far, weak enforcement. In an overview of our complaints since 2018, noyb wants to show how that lack of enforcement manifests in individual cases.

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Data breach in Malta: 65.000 € fine for C-Planet

20 January 2022 / article

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

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Austrian DSB: EU-US data transfers to Google Analytics illegal

13 January 2022 / article /
Data Transfers

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.

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EDPS sanctions Parliament over EU-US Data Transfers to Google and Stripe

11 January 2022 / article /
Cookie Banners

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.

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Complaint filed: Help! My recruiter is an algorithm!

22 December 2021 / article

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.

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GDPR complaint: Airbnb hosts at the mercy of algorithms

22 December 2021 / article

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

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4th Advent Reading: Facebook fully ignores "Schrems" rulings by Court of Justice

19 December 2021 / article /
Data Transfers

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

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Deep Dive: How Facebook tries to ignore the CJEU - despite two judgments.

19 December 2021 / article /
Data Transfers

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.

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NCC & noyb GDPR complaint: "Grindr" fined € 6.3 Mio over illegal data sharing

15 December 2021 / article /
Identification & Authentication

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

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Third noyb "Advent Reading" from Facebook/DPC Documents

12 December 2021 / article

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

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noyb and ZDF Magazin Royale are looking for "Target Leaks" data donors!

10 December 2021 / article

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

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Second noyb "Advent Reading" from Facebook/DPC Documents

04 December 2021 / article

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".

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First noyb "Advent Reading" from Facebook/DPC Documents

28 November 2021 / article /
Data Transfers

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.

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Irish DPC removes noyb from GDPR procedure - Criminal report filed

23 November 2021 / article

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.

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Cell phone data not "personal"? noyb appeals to federal administrative court

15 November 2021 / article

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

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Want your Grindr data? Show your ID and take a selfie!

11 November 2021 / article /
Identification & Authentication

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

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