GDPR Rights in Sweden: Court confirms that authority must investigate complaints.

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass GDPR Rights in Sweden: Court confirms that authority must investigate complaints. So far, the Swedish IMY has taken the view that users don’t have party rights in GDPR procedures. The Stockholm administrative court held that a complainant under Article 77 GDPR has the right to request a decision from the Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) after six months. So far, the IMY took the view that users are not a party in procedures concerning their own GDPR rights. The right to get a decision within six months also applies if the IMY opens a parallel ex officio investigation into the same company. Read the full GDPRhub summary on the decision One month according to the GDPR turns into three years in reality. In January 2019, a user filed a complaint with the Austrian DSB in response to Spotify’s insufficient answer to his access request. The complaint was forwarded to the Swedish IMY, which is responsible for Spotify. Since then, the case has not been