A1: "Where were you? None of your business!"

noyb.eu filed a GDPR complaint against A1 Telekom Austria on Friday, as A1 refuses to provide traffic and location data to its customers. Since A1 also uses this data for movement analyses (recently for corona analyses), the lack of transparency seems particularly problematic. Download: Complaint German (PDF) Location data. Part of the complaint deals with "location data". This is data indicating the geographical location of the telecommunication equipment of a user; it can therefore be used to determine the location of a user's mobile telephone. A1 also uses this data for the recently debated anonymous movement analyses. Mobile phone not "personal" enough? Here, A1 relies on an old decision from the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) and believes that they are not obliged to provide data information, as users aren't able to sufficiently prove that they are the sole useres of the phone number/ SIM card. It was therefore unclear whether the location data recorded were really data