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Swedish data brokers claim journalists’ legal protection to evade EU law
Mar 14, 2024 Thanks to a loophole in national law, data brokers can exempt their business from EU privacy law. This enables the uncontrolled sale of the personal data of millions of people in Sweden28 NGOs urge EU DPAs to reject “Pay or Okay” on Meta
Feb 16, 2024 The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) will soon issue what is likely to be its most significant opinion to dateGerman credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
Feb 16, 2024 The comapny uses manipulative designs to prevent people from obtaining a free copy of their data in accordance with lawGerman DPA declares data trading between credit agency and address trader illegal
Feb 05, 2024 noyb win in proceedings against the credit reference agency CRIF and the address trader Acxiom in GermanyData Protection Day: 74% of insiders see ‘relevant violations’ at most companies
Jan 28, 2024 noyb conducted a survey among more than 1000 data protection professionals working in European companiesMeta ignores the users’ right to easily withdraw consent
Jan 11, 2024 If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscriptionCreditors' association earns millions with (actually) cost-free GDPR rights
Jan 04, 2024 KSV1870 uses misleading website designs to urge people to purchase a high-priced "InfoPass" instead of getting a free copy of their dataGDPR complaint against X (Twitter) over illegal micro-targeting for chat control ads
Dez 14, 2023 X enabled the illegal political micro-targeting used by the EU CommissionCJEU landmark rulings on “credit ranking” and review of DPAs
Dez 07, 2023 The CJEU issued two judgments with far-reaching consequences for the credit ranking business and judicial review of DPAsnoyb sues CRIF and AZ Direct for illegal and secret data processing
Dez 04, 2023 noyb is suing for injunctive relief and damages, among other things.noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”
Nov 28, 2023 Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPRnoyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads
Nov 16, 2023 The EU Commission used micro-targeting to promote its child sexual abuse legislation. This violated european privacy lawAddress trader sues German DPA to prevent noyb from accessing files
Oct 24, 2023 noyb asked the Hessian authority for access to the case file of the Acxiom complaint. The address trader filed an interim injunction against the authorityStreaming service DAZN took almost five years to answer a simple access request
Oct 09, 2023 Under the GDPR, companies have one month to answer access requests. DAZN took almost five yearsMeta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach
Oct 03, 2023 In order to bypass the GDPR, Meta apparently plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach€ 5,8 million fine for Grindr confirmed
Sep 29, 2023 The Norwegian Privacy Appeals Board (Personvernnemnda) today announced that it upholds the Norwegian DPA’s fine of NOK 65 million (approximately € 5,8 million).How mobile apps illegally share your personal data
Sep 14, 2023 Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy lawsYour Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing
Aug 31, 2023 noyb filed three complaints against Fitbit. The health and fitness company forces new app users to consent to data transfersAnnual Report 2022 out now!
Aug 23, 2023 2022 was the year of major decisions in our long-standing cases on EU-US datatransfers