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On November 11th, 2018 our director Max Schrems was on 60Minutes (the Sunday night TV program on CBS), trying to explain the good and the bad of GDPR and how we try to enforce it in practice!

IT-company C-planet leaked personal data of almost the whole Maltese voting population. A new complaint by noyb aims to reveal the source of the data that C-Planet has, as of now, kept silent about.

In preparation of the delivery of the non-binding advisory opinion of the Advocate General on December 19th at about 9:45 in Luxemburg, we have compiled the following preparation document.

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.

Cookie banners of large French webpages turn a clear “NO” into “fake consent” noyb.eu files three GDPR complaints with the French Data Protection Regulator (CNIL).

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

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".

"Die DSGVO sieht die Datenverarbeitung im Kampf gegen Epidemien ausdrücklich vor", erklärte Schrems in einer Aussendung am Montag. "Die Frage ist daher nicht ob, sondern wie." Eingriffe müssten auf ein Mindestmaß reduziert werden.

A year ago the so-called "Schrems II" decison was referred to as ground breaking What is the situation a year on?

When the GDPR became applicable on 25 May 2018, it was perceived as a watershed moment. The past 4 years have shown that a law alone does not change business models.

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.