Second noyb "Advent Reading" from Facebook/DPC Documents

noyb's Second "Advent Reading": How the Irish DPC tried to lobby Facebook's "GDPR bypass" into European Guidelines. This week, noyb published two rounds of documents as part of their "Advent Readings" from DPC and Facebook documents: A letter from Facebook to the Irish DPC confirms that the DPC had ten meetings with Facebook where they discussed and agreed on Facebook's GDPR bypass. The second round of documents shows that the DPC tried to push this bypass for "Social Media" into Guidelines of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) but was met with harsh criticism from other European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs), going all the way with comments like "We think that this interpretation undermines the system and spirit of the GDPR“ or "This reduces the GDPR to a pro-forma instrument." The DPC's attempt to include the GDPR bypass into the guidelines took place, while it was tasked with being an indepent decision maker in a pending case on Facebook's "GDPR bypass". Additional repor