Annual Report 2022 out now!

Annual Report 2022 In 2022, noyb continued its longstanding fight for users’ right to privacy. Although the GDPR always foresaw a strong role for non-profits in this regard, we still see a lack of enforcement by data protection authorities (DPAs). That's why our main effort in 2022 has been to push forward our nearly 800 preexisting cases, which were filed in previous years but often didn’t result in a DPA decision. This means that we have invested a lot of work in clarifying procedural issues and challenging DPAs' inaction across Europe. While it doesn’t necessarily make for the best headlines, it is often exactly this procedural groundwork that paves the way for material decisions in our own cases, as well as for those brought by others. The effort definitely paid off, because 2022 was the year of major decisions. In January, it kicked off with a decision on one of our data transfer complaints against the EU Parliament: the transfer of user data to the US was declared illegal. This w