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Complaint: Amazon doesn’t allow baseline TLS security
Mar 02, 2020 Baseline email security missing. During their route to the recipient, emails are handled by different entities, nodes and service providers.
Facebook witness: 9 ½ hours of “we don’t know”
Feb 26, 2020 After more than 9 hours, the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters (LGfZRS) closed the oral hearing in the data protection case against Facebook.
GDPRhub: The new public wiki with local GDPR decisions!
Feb 26, 2020 noyb has published a new database on GDPR decisions and knowlege, to improve the access to GDPR.
Three GDPR Complaints filed against Grindr, Twitter and the AdTech companies Smaato, OpenX, AdColony and AT&T’s AppNexus
Jan 14, 2020 Research by the Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) shows that many smartphone apps send highly personal data to thousands of advertising partners.
CJEU – AG Opinion, First Statement
Dez 19, 2019 Serious doubts over Privacy Shield. Advocate General applies ECHR instead of CFR. Schrems: The opinion follows almost all of our arguments”
Prep – Background on tomorrow’s AG Opinion
Dez 18, 2019 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.
Say “NO” to cookies – yet see your privacy crumble?
Dez 10, 2019 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).
Facebook: We don’t need your consent!
Nov 12, 2019 The world's largest social network believes it has found a way to bypass Europe’s strict privacy laws.
CJEU hears case on EU-US data transfers (Standard Contractual Clauses and Privacy Shield)
Jul 08, 2019 Due to a number of requests, we have summarized the key facts of the case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on EU-US data transfers and mass surveillance by the US government.
Austrian Supreme Court: Facebook dismissed
Jun 21, 2019 The Austrian Supreme Court has ultimately rejected all attempts by Facebook to block a model lawsuit on fundamental privacy issues in Vienna now.
BREAKING: CNIL fines Google € 50 Mio based on noyb complaint
Jun 21, 2019 English Press Release (PDF) Key Info The French data protection authority (CNIL) just has announced that it has imposed a record fine of € 50 million on Google for violating the GDPR today.
noyb and Access Now hosted workshop on effective enforcement actions
Jun 05, 2019 noyb and Access Now jointly hosted the workshop “One year after GDPR: Advancing rights through effective enforcement actions” from May 8 to 10 in Vienna.
Irish Supreme Court: Facebook’s application dismissed
May 31, 2019 In the procedure on Facebook’s involvement with the NSA under the so-called “PRISM” surveillance program, the Irish Supreme Court has today decided over an unprecedented application by Facebook.
Netflix, Spotify & YouTube: Eight Strategic Complaints filed on “Right to Access”
Jan 18, 2019 A test by noyb shows structural violations of most streaming services. In more than 10 test cases noyb was able to identify violations of Article 15 GDPR.
“Pay or Okay” bei derStandard.at?
Dez 10, 2018 Guest commentary by Max Schrems in 'Der Standard' (an Austrian newspaper) to the subscription type 'PUR-Abo' by DerStandard.at
Test Cases On Freedom To Exercise GDPR Rights In Any Format
Dez 08, 2018 Many controllers reacted to GDPR with automated systems. While this may be effective and helpful in many cases, there is a tendency that controllers limit the options of data subjects...
Our director Max Schrems on 60 Minutes (a CBS show)
Nov 12, 2018 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!
Submission at the Austrian Federal Administrative Court (BVwG)
Oct 16, 2018 noyb represents a customer of an Austrian bank, who wanted access to his bank account details – but was denied access.