Judicial Review against DPC over slow procedure granted

Forced Consent & Consent Bypass In the complaints procedures concerning WhatsApp and Instagram, both based in Ireland, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has taken 2 years only to produce a first "Draft Inquiry Report". This is only the first of six steps in an urgent GDPR case before arriving at an actual decision. After multiple exchanges with the DPC, noyb.eu was granted leave by the High Court today for a Judicial Review of the DPC’s procedure on behalf of two complainants. Application that was approved today (PDF) More Information about the original complaints Complaints on 25 May 2018. Within the first hours that the GDPR became applicable, noyb.eu filed four complaints on behalf of individual users. While one complaint against Google was handled by the French regulator (CNIL) within months and lead to a fine of €50million, the other complaints were forwarded from Austria, Germany and Belgium to the Irish DPC, where they are still being "processed". Instagram and What