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Almost 7 years after the GDPR came into force, noyb remains to be one of the leading European forces pushing for the fundamental right to data protection for all users.

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Jul 31, 2025 Source noyb.eu

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Almost 7 years after the GDPR came into force, noyb remains to be one of the leading European forces pushing for the fundamental right to data protection for all users. To date, our legal work has resulted in administrative fines totalling €1.69 billion. Our achievements in 2024 prove once again that we can make an impact: In addition to filing 36 new complaints, we also obtained a number of new decisions from authorities and even a ruling from the European Court of Justice (CJEU). Annual Report 2024Our cases in 2024. Among the most significant cases in 2024 are noyb’s first complaints against Meta’s and Twitter’s (X) plan to unlawfully take the personal data of European users to train their AI systems. We filed 11 complaints against Meta in June 2024, resulting in a pause of the training plans for the rest of the year. In August, we followed up with 9 complaints against Twitter’s very similar AI plans.In addition, we continued to work on topics such as unlawful credit scoring and file

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