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… Data extracted from public registers.  The credit agency CRIF obtains most of its address data from the address … made on behalf of the more than 2,400 participants in the CRIF project, we now know: the three address brokers … has sold a total of more than 7 million data records to CRIF. It is currently completely unclear where CRIF's …

… (.zip) Data sources: Three major address publishers. CRIF's address data comes primarily from three address … for marketing purposes. Nevertheless, they end up at CRIF and form the basis for CRIF's credit rating. If the unlawful transfer of address … In order to gather further information on the practices of CRIF and its partner companies, noyb calls on all 2,440 …

… Frequently asked questions and answers Background: What is CRIF? CRIF is one of the two major credit agencies in Austria. The … to calculate a ‘creditworthiness score’. In other words, CRIF has built up a kind of national register in which … ‘data donations’. noyb wants to get to the bottom of CRIF's non-transparent and possibly illegal business …

… Complaint against CRIF and Acxiom Background: Secret, illegal data trading. The credit reference agency CRIF constantly buys personal data such as the names, … authority (DPA), which is handling the proceedings against CRIF, has now followed this assessment: CRIF processed the …

… Lawsuit against CRIF and AZ Direct (DE) Data protection violations as a … and gender of Austrians to the credit reference agency CRIF. This is illegal, as address publishers are only … this data for advertising purposes. In reality, however, CRIF uses the data to calculate people's (supposed) …

… the address trader Acxiom and the credit reference agency CRIF in Germany. Although there is strong evidence that the … prevent any kind of access to the files. Complaint against CRIF and Acxiom (German) English auto-translation of the … illegal trade of personal data. The credit reference agency CRIF continuously buys the names, dates of birth and …

… has a right to receive all data that credit bureaus like CRIF store within one month. However, CRIF's response fails to indicate the source of the data on … Chairman of noyb : " It is almost bizarre to what extent CRIF disregards the GDPR. At every turn, a new violation of …

… under Article 15 of the GDPR to the credit reporting agency CRIF - which noyb has also successfully prosecuted for other data protection violations. CRIF responded to the data subject with a mere list of the …

… the core data (name, address, date of birth, gender) that CRIF uses to calculate questionable "creditworthiness … the entire resident population) unlawfully ended up at CRIF GmbH for credit agency purposes. noyb has filed a test … problems recorded and "scored". With the help of AZ Direct, CRIF has data of millions of Austrians, assignes everyone a …

… the address trader Acxiom and the credit reference agency CRIF Bürgel in Germany. Their illegal trade with personal … and credit reference agencies.  Download: Complaint against CRIF Bürgel and Acxiom (German) Download: English machine translation of the complaint (PDF) CRIF Bürgel uses data sets that were originally collected …

… Data voodoo: Credit ranking agency CRIF creates creditworthiness out of thin air. Data … on our first complaint against the credit reporting agency CRIF . CRIF had attributed a negative credit rating to a data … on our first complaint against the credit ranking agency CRIF. …

… filed a GDPR complaint against the credit ranking agency CRIF GmbH and the address publisher AZ Direct on March 18, … English machine translation of the complaint (PDF) CRIF and AZ Direct: GDPR violation as a common business … had submitted an access request under Article 15 GDPR to CRIF. CRIF stated that it had stored his name, date of birth …

… filed a GDPR complaint against the credit rating agency "CRIF", who is active in over 28 countries. CRIF assigned a "score" of exactly 446 out of 700 possible … with a well-paid permanent job. This is astonishing as CRIF emphasised several times that it did not know the …