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First decision on noyb’s streaming complaints

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Forced Consent & Consent Bypass First decision on noyb’s streaming complaints - after more than one and a half years In cooperation with the Austrian Chamber of Labour, noyb filed eight complaints against streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime in January 2019 for not sufficiently complying with the right of access under Article 15 GDPR. A first decision has now been issued: At the beginning of September 2020 – more than one and a half years after the complaint was lodged – the Austrian data protection authority (Datenschutzbehörde – "DSB") decided on the complaint against the Vienna streaming service Flimmit. The legal deadline for decisions in Austria is six months. The DSB took its decision only after noyb filed a so-called late complaint with the court, giving the DSB three months to take a decision. "We are pleased that one of our complaints has finally been decided. However, the fact that it took more than one and a half years and a complaint to the Austrian Federal A

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