The EDPB has decided that three Meta Apps (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) did not have a legal basis to process user data since May 2018. Meta's legal trick has been rejected.

First reaction to Meta's announcement to stop using personal data for AI training in the EU/EEA

After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.

Facebook must stop further transfers of European personal data to the United States, given that Facebook is subject to US surveillance laws (like FISA 702 and EO 12.333).

Activist’s complaint alleges tech giant’s use of tracking identifiers without user consent breaches EU law

noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

Meta charges up to €251.88 to respect the fundamental right to privacy of EU users. This is a violation of the GDPR

The Stockholm administrative court held that a complainant under Article 77 GDPR has the right to request a decision from the Swedish Data Protection Authority (IMY) after six months.

Google is tricking people into consentig to first-party tracking through its Privacy Sandbox. noyb has now filed a complaint

The EU Commission used micro-targeting to promote its child sexual abuse legislation. This violated european privacy law

Twitter did not inform users about personal data being used for AI training and did not seek consent.

noyb urges DPAs in 11 countries to immediately stop Meta's use of personal data for undefined "AI technology"

Meta announced they will soon switch to "consent" for behavioral ads. Exactly what consequences this will have remains to be seen

In order to bypass the GDPR, Meta apparently plans to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach

Another complaint against Amazon Europe: a customer made an access request to find out why he was denied certain payment options; he did not receive a reply.

Final round on “One Trust” cookie banners: 226 complaints lodged by noyb against deceptive cookie banners that are still not complying with GDPR requirements.

noyb filed a complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” (called Privacy Preserving Attribution) in its Firefox browser which tracks user behaviour on websites.

Thanks to a loophole in national law, data brokers can exempt their business from EU privacy law. This enables the uncontrolled sale of the personal data of millions of people in Sweden

First reaction to Meta's announcement to stop using personal data for AI training in the EU/EEA

Use the noyb tool to opt out of targeted advertising and various other claimed 'legitimate interestes' by Meta in a simple and legally sound way.

After three years of GDPR our first interim conclusion is mixed since having rights does still not necessarily lead to more justice.

In today's ruling in C-446/21 (Schrems v. Meta), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has fully backed a lawsuit brought against Meta, over its Facebook service.

The Facebook owner said it would appeal an order to stop sending data about European Union users to the United States.

We won a case against Belgian news company Mediahuis. Four major news websites must adapt their currently deceptive cookie banners

noyb filed three complaints against Fitbit. The health and fitness company forces new app users to consent to data transfers

Remarks by Executive Vice-President Vestager Today, the Commission has decided to open its first non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act. There are in total five of them. These dec

European Commission announces third "Safe Harbor", without substantial changes. noyb will bring third adequacy decision back to CJEU.

Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR and the so-called “Schrems II” decision on transatlantic data flows.

Following a noyb complaint and litigation over inactivity, the Swedish Data Protection Authoirty (IMY) has issued a fine of about € 5 million against Spotify.

X enabled the illegal political micro-targeting used by the EU Commission

noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding transparency issues, the right of access and the use of inaccurate information about users

Some mobile apps share your personal data immediately after they're opened. This isn't compliant with EU privacy laws

EU Commissioner Reynders repeatedly attacked "non-profits" like noyb, alleging they bring cases before the CJEU as a "business model".

DPC demanded noyb to sign an "non-disclosure agreement" benefiting Facebook and the DPC in direct exchange for granting noyb procedural rights. We now filed a corruption report.

The Court found the Spanish DPA competent to resolve a complaint against US-based Clearview AI, and thus ordered the DPA to admit and process the complaint.

Swedish data protection authority (IMY) issued decisions against four companies and imposed a fine of 12 mio SEK (1 mio Euro) against Tele2 and 300.000 SEK against CDON

If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscription

The Norwegian Privacy Appeals Board (Personvernnemnda) today announced that it upholds the Norwegian DPA’s fine of NOK 65 million (approximately € 5,8 million).

A new noyb analysis now shows how a combination of inactive DPAs and a new deal by the EU Commission lead to 23 years of privacy violations

Google continues to send data from EU websites to the US - despite two Court of Justice rulings.

Following action by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), the European Commission will start regularly checking the progress of all "large-scale" cases across the EU.

As Europe's new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it gives people over the data that companies want to collect about them.

noyb reichte Beschwerden gegen die Cookie-Paywalls von sieben großen deutschsprachigen Nachrichten-Seiten ein

noyb has filed two complaints against Microsoft for unlawful data processing in 365 Education

Major privacy complaints in Europe targeting the legality of Meta’s core "personalized" ads business model have finally been settled.

noyb is taking the IMY to court to ensure that it finally complies with its obligations

The Irish government tries to sneak a provision into the Irish Data Protection Law allowing any part of the procedure being declared "confidential". Legitimate criticism would become a crime.