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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.

noyb.eu filed complaints over “forced consent” against Google, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook

May 25, 2018 Privacy à la “take it or leave it”? The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force today at midnight is supposed to give users a free choice, but Facebook ignores that.