Data protection and digital regulation developments, collected automatically from 17+ sources.
Get this as an email digestA judge of the Vienna Regional Court delivered a written judgment (PDF, German) in a long-lasting civil case on Facebook yesterday night. Despite summarizing detailed facts about…
In May, we published an open letter describing the Irish DPA’s (DPC) “Kafkaesque” procedure for its handling of the Facebook case. The Facebook Group could face a fine of up to €…
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass Background. Following a complaint by noyb and a similar complaint by the French NGO “La Quadrature du Net” the CNIL (the French Data Protection…
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…
After a massive leak of the voter’s list showing the voting preferences, addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of a majority of the Maltese population, noyb.eu will assist…
Within hours of the new GDPR being applicable on 25 May 2018, the European non-profit organisation noyb.eu filed three complaints against the Facebook Group (including WhatsApp…
After lack of reaction: former Apple employee presents letter to DPAs, asking them to investigate Siri recording the users. noyb.eu will be looking into the case. We generally…
Online & Mobile tracking Today noyb.eu filed a formal GDPR complaint against Google for tracking users through an “Android Advertising ID” without a valid legal basis. The data…
Austria: First European "corona app" with 400,000 active users reviewed by noyb, epicenter.works and SBA resarch. Privacy friendly concept, that can still be improved. Download…
In recent days, the discussions around the use of data to combat the corona pandemic have increased. Therefore, we have written an ad hoc paper v0.3 (PDF, English) on compliance…
The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has forced many people to work from home. Video conferencing tools and other remote means of communication make this possible, transforming…
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass Cinemas and theatres are closed but the show must go on, as they say. And the show does go on. There is TV, of course, but also streaming services…
Data Security Baseline email security missing. During their route to the recipient, emails are handled by different entities, nodes and service providers which may intercept,…
The content on GDPRhub is divided into two databases: decisions and knowledge. In the decisions section we collect summaries of decisions by national DPAs and courts in English.…
After more than 9 hours, the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters (LGfZRS) closed the oral hearing in the data protection case against Facebook. The judgement will be issued in…
Identification & Authentication Link to the main page of the Norwegian Consumer Council: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/out-of-control/ Research by the Norwegian Consumer Council…
Data Transfers Data Protection Authorities must stop data transfers if Fundamental Rights are violated. Serious doubts over Privacy Shield. Advocate General applies ECHR instead…
Data Transfers In preparation of the delivery of the non-binding advisory opinion of the Advocate General on December 19th at about 9:45 in Luxemburg, we have compiled the…
Cookie Banners Cookie banners of large French webpages turn a clear “NO” into “fake consent” noyb.eu files three GDPR complaints with the French Data Protection Regulator (CNIL).…
The world’s largest social network believes it has found a way to bypass Europe’s strict privacy laws. In yesterday’s proceedings before the Vienna Regional Court (Landesgericht…
Download: Press Release Due to a number of requests, we have summarized the key facts of the case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on EU-US data transfers…
Key Info The French data protection authority (CNIL) just has announced that it has imposed a record fine of € 50 million on Google for violating the GDPR today (Link) The penalty…
The Austrian Supreme Court has ultimately rejected all attempts by Facebook to block a model lawsuit on fundamental privacy issues in Vienna now. In the final decision (link), the…
noyb and Access Now jointly hosted the workshop “One year after GDPR: Advancing rights through effective enforcement actions” from May 8 to 10 in Vienna. The workshop aimed to…
In the ongoing procedure on Facebook’s involvement with the NSA under the so-called “PRISM” surveillance program before the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the Irish…
Data Subject Rights Quick Links:Complaint AmazonComplaint AppleMusicComplaint DAZNComplaint FlimmitComplaint NetflixComplaint SoundCloudComplaint SpotifyComplaint YouTubeRight to…
Guest commentary by Max Schrems in ‘Der Standard’ (an Austrian newspaper) to the subscription type ‘PUR-Abo’ by DerStandard.at ‘Would you like to have a bit more privacy? – Then…
Many controllers reacted to GDPR with automated systems. While this may be effective and helpful in many cases, there is a tendency that controllers limit the options of data…
On November 11th, 2018 our director Max Schrems was on 60Minutes (the Sunday night TV program on CBS), trying to explain the good and the bad of GDPR and how we try to enforce it…
noyb represents a customer of an Austrian bank, who wanted access to his bank account details – but was denied access. The Austrian DPA has decided in favor of the customer, but…
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass Privacy à la “take it or leave it”? The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force today at midnight is supposed to give…