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Facebook's GDPR bypass reaches Austrian Supreme Court

14 March 2021 / article

Austrian Supreme Court may refer case to Court of Justice, questioning the basis of Facebook's business model in Europe.

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Sponsorships & Partnerships

09 March 2021 / page

Your organisation cares about data protection and privacy and you want to support our work? We offer three sponsorship packages, but are happy to discuss custom packages with you. Become a noyb sponsor or partner and help ensuring the right to privacy!

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Your right to lodge a complaint (Article 77)

17 February 2021 / page

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Your right to data portability (Article 20)

17 February 2021 / page

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Your right to erasure (Article 17)

17 February 2021 / page

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Right to rectification (Article 16)

17 February 2021 / page

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Your right to object (Article 21)

17 February 2021 / page

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Traineeship

09 February 2021 / page

Want to join noyb for a period of 4 to 6 months as a Legal Trainee? Our applications are always open!

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Right of access as a data protection boomerang?

08 February 2021 / article /
Credit Scoring

Complaint against data broker KSV 1870. The Austrian credit reference agency stores data from previously unknown individuals who exercise their legal right to access their data.

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Clearview AI deemed illegal in the EU, but only partial deletion ordered

28 January 2021 / article

The Hamburg Data Protection Authority deemed biometric profiles of Europeans illegal and ordered US-company Clearview AI to delete the biometric profile of the complainant.

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Statement on European Data Protection Day

28 January 2021 / article

This years European Data Protection Day on January 28th, marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of the European Data Protection Convention (Convention 108) on January 28th 1981.

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Gay Dating App "Grindr" to be fined almost € 10 Mio

26 January 2021 / article /
Identification & Authentication

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority confirmed that Grindr did not receive valid consent from users and announces a fine of 100 Mio NOK (€ 9.63 Mio) on Grindr.

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Luxemburg’s watchdog refuses to show its teeth to US companies

25 January 2021 / article

We filed an appeal against two decisions of the Luxemburg Data Protection Authority on a fundamental matter: the authority dismissed two complaints lodged against US-based data controllers.

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Data transfers to the US and insufficient cookie information: noyb files complaint against the European Parliament.

22 January 2021 / article

noyb filed a complaint, representing 6 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in their complaint concerning the Parliament’s coronavirus testing website.

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Irish DPC agrees to decide swiftly on Facebook's EU-US transfers

13 January 2021 / article /
Data Transfers

The DPC has agreed with Max Schrems' demand to swiftly end a 7.5 year battle over EU-US data transfers by Facebook and come to a decision on Facebook's EU-US data flows.

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Vienna Superior Court: Facebook must give access to data

29 December 2020 / article

Facebook lost and won appeal: It must give full access to all data and pay €500, but may use data without consent of the user.

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“Schrems II” reaches US Legislator: US Senate Hearing on EU-US data transfers

09 December 2020 / article /
Data Transfers

Today at 10:00am EST / 16:00 CET the Committee for Commerce, Science and Transportation of the United States Senate will have a hearing on the EU-US data transfers after the Schrems II decision.

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noyb files complaints against Apple's tracking code "IDFA"

16 November 2020 / article /
Online & Mobile tracking

Online tracking identifiers (“cookies”) are well-known and highly controversial. Apple even introduced functions in their browser to block cookies – but who has ever heard about “IDFA”?

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Maltese voter data leaked online. noyb files complaint.

12 November 2020 / article

noyb has filed a complaint against C-Planet IT Solutions, the company responsible for leaking 337,384 Maltese voter’s data - including their political preference.

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DPC ordered to pick up most of the legal bill of EU-US data transfer case

30 October 2020 / article /
Data Transfers

Today the Irish High Court has ordered the Irish DPC to cover most the costs of Mr Schrems’ legal team in relation to this summer’s decision on EU-US data transfers before the CJEU.

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