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Austrian DPA has option to fine Google up to €6 billion

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Data Transfers Google continues to send data from EU websites to the US - despite two Court of Justice rulings. Austrian Data Protection Authority could fine Google up to €6 billion. Last summer, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled - already for the second time - that US surveillance laws generally make the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US illegal. Google continues to ignore this decision and now argues before the Austrian DSB (PDF) that it may continue to transfer data on millions of visitors of EU websites to the US - in blatant contradiction to the GDPR. The Austrian data protection authority (DSB) now has the option to fine Google up to €6 billion under the GDPR. Submission by Google Submission by noyb noyb complaints against Google. After the so-called "Schrems II" ruling on 16.07.2020, Max Schrems' organization noyb, filed 101 complaints against EU websites in August 2020 that continued to pass data on every visitor to Google and Facebook. All complaints are

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