| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.09.2024 | Meta Set to Train AI Models on UK Adults’ Social Media Posts | Meta has announced it will be training its AI models using public content shared across its platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, by UK adults, after it had paused training in the UK and the EU following data protection concerns.
Pub... |
| 13.09.2024 | Meta to start using public posts on Facebook, Instagram in UK to train AI | :Meta Platforms will begin training its AI models using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram in the UK over the coming months, the company said, after it had paused the training in the region following a regulatory back... |
| 13.08.2024 | X Under Fire: Privacy Complaints Over AI Training Spark Controversy | In the digital age, privacy is a fragile glass. One crack, and it shatters. Recently, the social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, found itself in the eye of a storm. An Austrian advocacy group, NOYB, has filed a series of complaints ag... |
| 12.08.2024 | X hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI training | VIENNA : Austrian advocacy group NOYB on Monday filed a complaint against social media platform X accusing the Elon Musk-owned company of training its artificial intelligence (AI) with users' personal data without their consent in violation... |
| 12.08.2024 | Elon Musk, X Faces EU Privacy Complaints for Grok AI's Training With User Data | By Isaiah Richard
Published Aug 12, 2024 8:28AM EDT
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X is now facing a controversy regarding its Grok AI training, as about nine privacy ... |
| 09.07.2024 | Microsoft-Owned Adtech Xandr Faces Allegations of EU Privacy Violations | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published Jul 9, 2024 6:28AM EDT
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Microsoft's subsidiary, Xandr, is facing allegations of breaching European Union data... |
| 07.06.2024 | Meta обвиняется в незаконном использовании персональных данных для обучения ИИ | Австрийская правозащитная группа NOYB 6 июня подала жалобы в 11 европейских странах. Она обвиняет компанию Meta в использовании персональных данных своих пользователей для обучения ИИ без их согласия.
Недавно Meta обновили свою политику кон... |
| 05.06.2024 | Microsoft Faces Children’s Privacy Complaints in Austria Over Use of 365 Education Suite in Schools | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published Jun 5, 2024 4:38AM EDT
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A privacy advocacy group in Austria filed two complaints against Microsoft on Tuesday... |
| 04.06.2024 | Advocacy group accuses Microsoft of shifting child data role onto schools | BRUSSELS :Microsoft is shifting its responsibilities for children's personal data onto schools who are not equipped to cope, advocacy group NOYB alleges in one of two complaints filed to Austria's privacy watchdog.
The complaints against Mi... |
| 10.05.2024 | The European Data Protection Board’s Opinion on “Pay or Okay” Models – Surveillance-based Advertising is on Borrowed Time | Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018, civil society has hoped—and industry has feared—that its enforcement would spell the end of surveillance-based advertising and the ubiquitous tracking it requires... |
| 08.05.2024 | Can ChatGPT Violate Your Privacy Rights If It Doesn’t Store Your Data? | If you were to ask someone to state the birthday of someone else, and the person asked just made up a date, which was not the actual birthday, would you argue that the individual’s privacy had been violated? Would you argue that there shoul... |
| 04.05.2024 | Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses | Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last (for a while, anyway). Soon, I’ll be shifting my attention to a new A... |
| 01.05.2024 | ChatGPT Keeps Hallucinating and OpenAI Cannot Stop It: Privacy Campaign Group | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 01 May 2024, 03:05 am
A Vienna privacy campaign group, NOYB (None of Your Business), announced plans to file a complaint against ChatGPT, alleging that the AI tool invented incorrect answers that even its creator,... |
| 29.04.2024 | OpenAI's ChatGPT targeted in Austrian privacy complaint | BRUSSELS : Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI on Monday found itself the target of a privacy complaint by advocacy group NOYB for allegedly not fixing incorrect information provided by its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT that may breach EU priva... |
| 28.04.2024 | ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU | OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability of its AI chatbot ChatGPT to correct misinformat... |
| 25.04.2024 | Meta could face further squeeze on surveillance ads model in EU | Meta’s tracking ads business could be facing further legal blows in the European Union: An influential adviser to the bloc’s top court affirmed Thursday that the region’s privacy laws limit how long people’s data can be used for targeted ad... |
| 17.04.2024 | Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB | The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance that has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms.
Since November 2023, the owner of Facebook and Instagram has forced users in the Europea... |
| 17.04.2024 | EU privacy body adopts view on Meta’s controversial ‘consent or pay’ tactic | Incoming guidance by an expert steering body on European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta’s advertising business model. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has decided that large platforms such as Faceb... |
| 15.04.2024 | Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ tactic must not prevail over privacy, EU rights groups warn | Nearly two dozen civil society groups and non-profits have written an open letter to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), urging it not to endorse a strategy used by Meta that they say is intended to bypass the EU’s privacy protection... |
| 19.03.2024 | Meta offers lower cost for EU ad-free subscription under privacy review | Meta has proposed to drop the price of an ad-free subscription in the European Union — currently the only way regional users of its social networks, Facebook and Instagram, can avoid its tracking and profiling.
Meta’s lawyer Tim Lamb reveal... |
| 15.03.2024 | Scrap coercive ‘privacy fee,’ MEPs urge Meta’s Nick Clegg in open letter | Meta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and Instagram.
Currently, the company demands a per-account fee of €9.99/month on web or €12.99/month on mobile for us... |
| 10.01.2024 | Meta faces another EU privacy challenge over ‘pay for privacy’ consent choice | Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the bloc’s comprehensive data protection laws is facing a second challenge from privacy rights advocacy group noyb. It’s supporting... |
| 13.12.2023 | Privacy complaint takes aim at Musk’s X over EU ads targeted on sensitive data | Elon Musk’s X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing a new privacy complaint in Europe related to its ad targeting tools. The complaint, which is being lodged with the Dutch data protection authority by privacy righ... |
| 07.12.2023 | Credit scoring firms face curbs after landmark EU data protection ruling | Credit scoring companies operating in the European Union could be facing tighter curbs under the bloc’s privacy laws following a ruling issued by the Court of Justice (CJEU) today. The referral relates to complaints brought against the prac... |
| 04.12.2023 | Meta faces $600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit | Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data for ads under European Union data protection rules also constitutes a... |
| 29.11.2023 | European consumer groups band together to fight Meta’s self-serving ad-free sub — branding it ‘unfair’ and ‘illegal’ | Days after a privacy complaint was lodged against Meta in the European Union over its latest controversial shift of legal basis claimed for processing people’s data for ads, consumer groups across the region are filing their own complaints ... |
| 28.11.2023 | Meta’s EU ad-free subscription faces early privacy challenge | Meta’s shiny new bid to circumvent European Union privacy rules — by offering users a false choice between paying it a hefty monthly subscription for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram or agreeing to give up their privacy rights in ... |
| 21.11.2023 | Privacy Activist Files Complaint Against The EU Commission Over Its Highly Targeted (Misleading) Ads About CSAM Scanning | A few weeks back we wrote about a report that the EU Commission, in its push for dangerous client-side scanning mandates, had started buying highly targeted ads to try to influence people to support the policy. The ads, first revealed by Wi... |
| 15.11.2023 | EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X | A microtargeted advertising controversy which has implicated European Union lawmakers in privacy-hostile practices banned by laws they had a hand in passing is the subject of a new complaint by privacy rights not-for-profit, noyb.
The compl... |
| 15.11.2023 | Мобильные суперприложения выгодны корпорациям, но это кошмар для простых людей | Профиль личности в агрегаторе Acxiom включает 10 000 атрибутов. База 3,5 млрд человек. Данные поступают от мобильных приложений и соцсайтов, источник
Суперприложение (super-app, суперапп) по определению — это мобильное или веб-приложение, к... |
| 30.10.2023 | Meta to offer ad-free subscription in Europe in bid to keep tracking other users | Meta is to offer an ad-free subscription version of Facebook and Instagram in the European Union, EEA (European Economic Area) and Switzerland, confirming the core of a report in the WSJ earlier this month. The new ad-free subscription will... |
| 03.10.2023 | Meta planning ad-free subscription or tracking ads ‘choice’ in EU, per WSJ — in latest bid to keep snooping | New battle lines appear to be being drawn up in the European Union between Facebook and Instagram owner Meta and regional users’ privacy rights.
As it stands, the tech giant is running ads unlawfully in the EU since they target users by tra... |
| 30.08.2023 | Fitbit targeted with trio of data transfer complaints in Europe | Google-owned Fitbit is facing a trio of privacy complaints in the European Union which allege the company is illegally exporting user data in breach of the bloc’s data protection rules.
The complaints target Fitbit’s claim that users have c... |
| 01.08.2023 | Meta says it will offer Europeans a free choice to deny tracking | Meta is bowing to legal inevitability in the European Union: It’s just announced it will finally comply with regional privacy regulations by giving users a free choice to deny its behavioral advertising.
The tech giant is subject to an ongo... |
| 13.07.2023 | The Big Brother in your pocket: How a US company secretly tracks and rates half of the world's mobile users | Imagine a hidden system that tracks and scores you based on every phone call you make or take. It might sound like something straight out of a Black Mirror episode and remind you of China's controversial social credit system. But surprising... |
| 11.07.2023 | EU-U.S. data pact kicks off new sharing era | A deal allowing tech companies to send user data between the European Union and the United States was completed Monday, resolving a disagreement over the ability of American intelligence agencies to access EU resident data.
Why it matters: ... |
| 11.07.2023 | Landmark EU-US Data Privacy Framework Adopted | In a major move for data transfer capabilities, The European Commission has adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
The decision by the EU has concluded that the United States ensures an adequate level of protect... |
| 10.07.2023 | Europe adopts US data adequacy decision | The European Union has adopted a new transatlantic data adequacy agreement with the U.S.
The much anticipated decision means there’s an immediate resolution to legal uncertainty around exports of EU users’ personal data by U.S. companies — ... |
| 04.07.2023 | CJEU ruling on Meta referral could close the chapter on surveillance capitalism | Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta’s-surveillance-capitalism-day… A long-anticipated judgement handed down today by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) looks to hav... |
| 26.06.2023 | Irish government criticized over proposed law-change that would ‘muzzle’ Big Tech critics | An 11th-hour amendment to the government of Ireland’s Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 will serve to “muzzle” people looking to speak out about how Big Tech and public bodies are misusing their data.
That’s accordin... |
| 13.06.2023 | Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint | Music streaming giant Spotify is facing a fine of around €5 million ($5.4M) in Sweden years after it was accused of breaching the data access rights of users in the European Union by not providing full information about personal data it pro... |
| 23.05.2023 | TikTok’s lead privacy regulator in Europe takes heat from MEPs | MEPs in the European Parliament had the opportunity of a rare in-person appearance by Ireland’s data protection commissioner, Helen Dixon, to criticize the bloc’s lead privacy regulator for most of Big Tech over how long it’s taking to inve... |
| 22.05.2023 | Does Meta’s £1bn Fine Set ‘Dangerous Precedent’ for US-EU Data Sharing? | The fine was announced by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a decade-long case which concluded Meta was transferring European users’ data in a way that created risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the users.
Meta n... |
| 22.05.2023 | Meta ordered to suspend Facebook EU data flows as it’s hit with record €1.2BN privacy fine under GDPR | It’s finally happened: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been hit with a formal suspension order requiring it to stop exporting European Union user data to the US for processing.
Today the European Data Protection Board (EDP... |
| 04.05.2023 | Europe’s top court clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights | The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection.
One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); and the seco... |
| 04.04.2023 | Using Facebook in the EU? Here’s how to opt out of its creepy ads | Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union objecting to Meta’s behavioral advertising can easily ask for their data not to being used for its consentless tracking-and-profiling thanks to a free tool provided by privacy rights not-fo... |
| 20.03.2023 | Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany | In its latest piece of strategic litigation, the precision-punching European privacy rights campaign group noyb has used data donated by users of the ‘Who Targets me‘ browser extension, which analyzes political microtargeting on Facebook, t... |
| 16.03.2023 | Use of Meta tracking tools found to breach EU rules on data transfers | Austria’s data protection authority has found that use of Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law as personal data was transferred to the US where the information was at risk from government surveillance.
The finding fl... |
| 27.02.2023 | The Jurisdiction of the New Data Protection Review Court | It seems odd to say, but at least in one sense, Europeans are now more likely to be able to substantively challenge American intelligence community collection practices than Americans themselves are. To be sure, this may not make much of a ... |
| 20.01.2023 | WhatsApp GDPR Fine | What You Need to Know | WhatsApp is just the latest Meta platform to be found in breach of GDPR regulations, but data privacy advocates say this ruling is just not enough.
Similar to the case put forth against Facebook and Instagram, Whatsapp, which is also owned ... |
| 20.01.2023 | EU watchdogs agree on how to handle certain cookie consent dark patterns | Cookie consent banners that use blatant design tricks to try to manipulate web users into agreeing to hand over their data for behavioral advertising, instead of giving people a free and fair choice to refuse this kind of creepy tracking, a... |
| 19.01.2023 | Meta dodged a €4BN privacy fine over unlawful ads, argues GDPR complainant | A €390 million privacy fine for Meta announced earlier this month in the European Union — for running behavioral ads on Facebook and Instagram in the region without a valid legal basis — was several billion dollars smaller than it should ha... |
| 19.01.2023 | WhatsApp slapped for processing data without a lawful basis under EU’s GDPR | Another bill has come in for Meta for failing to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — but this one’s a tiddler! Meta-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp, has been fined €5.5 million (just under $6M) by... |
| 18.01.2023 | The Cost of GDPR Fines Surged in 2022 | Global law firm DLA Piper has published the findings of its annual GDPR and Data Breach Survey. The Europe-wide survey has revealed another record year for GDPR fines in 2022 with a 168% year on year increase in the total value of fines iss... |
| 11.01.2023 | Major EU privacy decisions against Meta’s legal basis for ads raise fresh complaints | Privacy watchers keen to dig into the regulatory reasoning underpinning two major decisions against Meta earlier this month — which struck down Facebook and Instagram’s claim of contractual necessity as a valid legal basis to run behavioral... |
| 10.01.2023 | Gentlemen’s Rules for Reading Each Other’s Mail: The New OECD Principles on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities | In 1928, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson famously shut down an intelligence program that deciphered encrypted international cables, indignantly proclaiming that “a gentleman doesn’t read somebody else’s mail.” Nearly a century later, ... |
| 05.01.2023 | Meta Found to be Non-Compliant in Landmark GDPR Case | Meta will be fined £344 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission for its use of ‘forced consent’ for personalised advertising.
The fine and decision comes after two lengthy legal battles that originated in 2018, after GDPR was first ... |
| 04.01.2023 | Meta’s New Year kicks off with $410M+ in fresh EU privacy fines | Meta is kicking off the New Year with more privacy fines and corrective orders hitting its business in Europe. The latest swathe of enforcement relates to a number of EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints over the legal ba... |
| 19.12.2022 | The Privacy Compliance Gap: How Lack Of Consent Enforcement Is Exposing Brands To Millions In Fines And Penalties | Guy Tytunovich is the founder and CEO of CHEQ, a leader in go-to-market security. |
| 06.12.2022 | Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January | Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The complaints, ... |
| 21.10.2022 | The ‘Three Rs’ of President Biden’s Trans-Atlantic Privacy Outreach | Can President Biden finally resolve America’s privacy conflict with Europe? Only time will tell, but he’s made a good-faith offer that European leaders would be wise to accept.
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and its European... |
| 14.10.2022 | What’s in Biden’s Executive Order on Signals Intelligence? | On Oct. 7, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities. This order is a concrete step taken by the president to fulfill a commitment made in March during an announceme... |
| 10.10.2022 | New EU-US data transfer pact may fall short of what EU wants, Max Schrems says | Austrian privacy activist and lawyer Max Schrems has warned European Union and United States policymakers that President Biden's executive order, which last week set forth new guidelines for how the US and Europe share people's private pers... |
| 24.08.2022 | Google faces ‘spam ads’ ePrivacy complaint in France | Google is facing a fresh privacy complaint in Europe over ads it inserts into its Gmail email service in the guise of emails.
Privacy advocacy group, noyb, has filed the complaint with France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, claiming t... |
| 08.08.2022 | Hold-outs targeted in fresh batch of noyb GDPR cookie consent complaints | Just over a year after launching a major project targeting thousands of sites blatantly flouting cookie tracking rules in Europe, local privacy campaign group noyb has fired off another batch of complaints targeting a hardcore of website op... |
| 07.07.2022 | Summer decision looms for Facebook’s EU-US data transfers | The wheels of privacy enforcement are slowly turning against Facebook in Europe — where its lead data protection regulator, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), has taken a key procedural step on a data transfers complaint whose subs... |
| 07.07.2022 | Всё о cookies в свете GDPR и не только | GDPR вступил в силу уже четыре года назад, однако его понимание и практика применения до сих пор развиваются (однако мои предыдущие статьи по-прежнему актуальны: первая, вторая). Как показывают последние новости, далеко не все преуспели в б... |
| 09.06.2022 | The Bipartisan, Bicameral Privacy Proposal Is a Big Deal | On June 3, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce posted a press release, legislative language, and a section-by-section analysis for a federal online privacy bill, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), with both biparti... |
| 08.06.2022 | France’s data watchdog warns over illegal use of Google Analytics | France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has issued updated guidance on use of Google Analytics following a decision earlier this year that found a local website’s use of the tool to be in breach of European Union law.
It has also confi... |
| 28.04.2022 | Europe’s top court unblocks more GDPR litigation against Big Tech | A ruling by the European Union’s top court today is set to unblock a raft of litigation brought by consumer protection organizations seeking to apply the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standard against tech giants such as ... |
| 29.03.2022 | EU/US Say They’ve Agreed To A New Privacy Shield… That Doesn’t Seem To Deal With Any Of The Problems Of The Old One | Last week, the EU and the US announced something important that sounds pretty boring — a new “privacy shield” agreement. You should know it’s important, because in the midst of dealing with everything else, including the Russian invasion of... |
| 25.03.2022 | EU, US agree on data transfer deal to replace defunct Privacy Shield | The European Union has just announced reaching an agreement in principle with the U.S. on a revived trans-Atlantic data flows deal — potentially signaling an end to the many months of legal uncertainty that has dogged cloud services after a... |
| 04.03.2022 | More deceptive cookie banners targeted in latest noyb EU action | European privacy advocacy group noyb has fired off a second batch of cookie consent complaints (270 in total) targeting websites in the region that it says are failing to properly request users’ consent to be tracked for ad targeting.
The p... |
| 28.02.2022 | Европейские альтернативы американским интернет-сервисам | Зашифрованное хранилище файлов CryptDrive.cz (Чехия)
Судя по последним событиям, Евросоюз начал по-взрослому давить на Google, Facebook и другие американские компании, которые собирают персональные данные европейских граждан и отправляют в ... |
| 21.02.2022 | Meta sent a new draft decision on its EU-US data transfers | Facebook has received a “revised” preliminary decision from its lead EU privacy regulator with implications for its ability to continue to export user data to the US, TechCrunch has learned.
“Meta has 28 days to make submissions on this pre... |
| 15.02.2022 | Франция забанила Google Analytics | Скриншот с сайта isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com
Французская национальная комиссия по информатике и свободам (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, CNIL) рассмотрела поступившие жалобы на американский сервис Google Analytics.... |
| 11.02.2022 | Data Transfers by Google Analytics Breach GDPR, Says French Watchdog | France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has ruled that data transfers from the EU to the US for Google Analytics are illegal.
The CNIL has ordered that the controller must now comply with GDPR. If they don’t, data transfers will have t... |
| 10.02.2022 | France’s privacy watchdog latest to find Google Analytics breaches GDPR | Use of Google Analytics has now been found to breach European Union privacy laws in France — after a similar decision was reached in Austria last month.
The French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, said today that an unnamed local website... |
| 04.02.2022 | On Meta’s ‘regulatory headwinds’ and adtech’s privacy reckoning | What does Meta/Facebook’s favorite new phrase to bandy around in awkward earnings calls — as it warns of “regulatory headwinds” cutting into its future growth — actually mean when you unpack it?
It’s starting to look like this breezy wordin... |
| 20.01.2022 | Google Analytics Is Illegal in Austria, Violates the GDPR | In what may be the first of many such rulings, Austria has ruled that Google Analytics violates the GDPR and is therefore illegal.
Google Analytics is the premier tool available to website operators to gauge their traffic, and better unders... |
| 20.01.2022 | Австрийский регулятор запретил использовать Google Analytics по соображениям безопасности | Австрийский регулятор в сфере защиты данных (Austrian Data Protection Authority, DPA) запретил использовать Google Analytics по соображениям безопасности. Сайты с установленной аналитикой в обязательном порядке пропускают трафик через серве... |
| 13.01.2022 | Google Analytics breaks GDPR, Austrian data protection watchdog finds | The Austrian data protection authority Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde has ruled that a German website has contravened the GDPR because its use of Google Analytics meant it was transferring personal data to the US for processing without ... |
| 12.01.2022 | In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR | A decision by Austria’s data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does not bode well for use of US cloud services in Europe.
The decision raises a big red flag over routine use o... |
| 10.01.2022 | European parliament found to have broken EU rules on data transfers and cookie consents | The European Union’s chief data protection supervisor has sanctioned the European Parliament for a series of breaches of the bloc’s data protection rules.
The decision sounds a loud warning to sites and services in the region about the need... |
| 21.12.2021 | Facebook's internal messages reveal plans to ignore European privacy laws | Internal exchanges between Facebook lawyers seen by Politico show that the company intends to ignore judgements by the European Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that US privacy laws offer insufficient protection to allow free t... |
| 20.12.2021 | Facebook’s internal assessment of EU-US data transfers shows it has no legal leg to stand on, says noyb | In its latest (and last) pre-Christmas document reveal, European privacy advocacy group noyb has published details of an 86-page internal assessment by Facebook of its (continued) transfers of European’s personal data to the U.S. — and the ... |
| 15.12.2021 | Grindr’s $7M GDPR fine is a stark warning to adtech not to track | Grindr, a hook-up app for gay, bi, trans and queer people, has been fined around $7.1 million (65 million NOK) by Norway’s data protection authority for passing user data to advertisers without consent — including highly sensitive informati... |
| 07.12.2021 | Ireland-led GDPR inquiry into Instagram’s use of kids’ data inches on | Ireland’s embattled data protection regulator, the DPC, has announced the submission of a draft decision sent to other EU DPAs Friday in relation to a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) investigation into Instagram’s handling of chil... |
| 24.11.2021 | Ведущую дело против Facebook ирландскую комиссию по защите данных обвинили в коррупции | Ирландская комиссия по защите данных (DPC) столкнулась с обвинениями в коррупции и взяточничестве. Регулятор ведет расследование против Facebook относительно конфиденциальности данных пользователей Евросоюза.LightRocket / Getty Images
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| 22.11.2021 | Facebook’s lead EU privacy supervisor hit with corruption complaint | Facebook’s problems with European privacy law could be about to get a whole lot worse. But ahead of what may soon be a major (and long overdue) regulatory showdown over the legality of its surveillance-based business model, Ireland’s Data P... |
| 14.10.2021 | Draft GDPR Fine Against Facebook Criticised for Leniency | A potential $42-million fine against Facebook proposed by Ireland’s GDPR regulator has been attacked by privacy campaigners.
The move has been criticised for being too lenient, but also for setting a precedent that could be used to bypass G... |
| 13.10.2021 | Ireland’s draft GDPR decision against Facebook branded a joke | Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in the European Union is inching toward making its first decision on a complaint against Facebook itself. And it looks like it’s a doozy.
Privacy campaign not-for-profit noyb today published a draft... |
| 03.09.2021 | WhatsApp Fined $267 Million for Not Being Transparent About Data Sharing with Facebook | Urian B., Tech Times 03 September 2021, 04:09 am
(Photo : Image from Unsplash Website) WhatsApp Fined $267 Million for Not Being Transparent About Data Sharing with Facebook
WhatsApp was just slapped with a 255 million euro fine or $267 mil... |
| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp faces $267M fine for breaching Europe’s GDPR | It’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection regime: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has just announced a €225 million (~$267 million) fine for WhatsApp.
The ... |
| 02.07.2021 | Dutch court will hear another Facebook privacy lawsuit | Privacy litigation that’s being brought against Facebook by two not-for-profits in the Netherlands can go ahead, an Amsterdam court has ruled. The case will be heard in October.
Since 2019, the Amsterdam-based Data Privacy Foundation (DPS) ... |
| 16.06.2021 | A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners” | reader comments 142 with 107 posters participating, including story author
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| 14.06.2021 | Europe needs to back browser-level controls to fix cookie consent nightmares, says privacy group | European privacy group noyb, which recently kicked off a major campaign targeting rampant abuse of the region’s cookie consent rules, has followed up by publishing a technical proposal for an automated browser-level signal it believes could... |
| 30.05.2021 | Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming | Cookie pop-ups getting you down? Complaints that the web is ‘unusable’ in Europe because of frustrating and confusing ‘data choices’ notifications that get in the way of what you’re trying to do online certainly aren’t hard to find.
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| 14.05.2021 | Facebook loses last-ditch attempt to derail DPC decision on its EU-US data flows | Facebook has failed in its bid to prevent its lead EU data protection regulator from pushing ahead with a decision on whether to order suspension of its EU-U.S. data flows.
The Irish High Court has just issued a ruling dismissing the compan... |
| 14.05.2021 | Facebook loses court fight over stopping EU-US data transfers | More On: facebook
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