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Illegal data exchange between address publisher and credit ranking agency - 27 mars 2021
noyb filed a GDPR complaint against the credit ranking agency CRIF GmbH and the address publisher AZ Direct on March 18, 2021. The companies exchange data which violates the GDPR, as well as Austrian law. Address publishers are only allowed to pass on data for advertising purposes, but not to credit agencies for (...)
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Clearview AI’s biometric photo database deemed illegal in the EU - 9 février 2021
Clearview AI is a US company that scrapes photos from websites to create a permanent searchable database of biometric profiles. US authorities use the face recognition database to find further information on otherwhise unknown persons in pictures and videos. Following legal submissions by noyb, the Hamburg Data (...)
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noyb files complaints against Apple’s tracking code "IDFA" - 16 novembre 2020
IDFA (Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers) allows Apple and all apps on the phone to track a user and combine information about online and mobile behaviour. Just like for cookies, this would require the users’ consent under EU law. Apple places these tracking codes without the knowledge or agreement of the users. (...)
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101 Complaints on EU-US transfers filed - 18 août 2020
A quick analysis of the HTML source code of major EU webpages shows that many companies still use Google Analytics or Facebook Connect one month after a major judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) - despite both companies clearly falling under US surveillance laws, such as FISA 702. Neither (...)
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CJEU Judgment - First Statement - 17 juillet 2020
CJEU invalidates “Privacy Shield” in US Surveillance case. SCCs cannot be used by Facebook and similar companies.
Facebook and similar companies may also not use "SCCs" to transfer data as DPC must stop transfers under this instrument. Schrems : “We need US surveillance reform. The Court has clarified that there (...)
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Complaint filed against Google Tracking ID - 14 mai 2020
Google : If you don’t want us to track your phone – just get another tracking ID !
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 collected with this unique tracking ID is passed on to countless third parties in (...)
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Facebook witness : 9 ½ hours of “we don’t know” - 16 mars 2020
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 writing within the next months. The witness of Facebook (Cecilia Alvarez) emphasized repeatedly that data protection on Facebook would (...)
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Complaint : Amazon doesn’t allow baseline TLS security - 16 mars 2020
Baseline email security missing. During their route to the recipient, emails are handled by different entities, nodes and service providers which may intercept, manipulate and unlawfully use the content. In order to reduce these risks, it is a baseline industry standard to use so-called TLS encryption. (...)
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Say “NO” to cookies – yet see your privacy crumble ? - 10 décembre 2019
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).
Relying on the open source extension “Cookie Glasses” developed by researchers of the French institute Inria, noyb.eu identified countless violations of (...)
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Même en refusant les cookies, votre vie privée peut s’émietter - 10 décembre 2019
Cdiscount, Webedia, Condé Nast, Facebook, AppNexus et PubMatic ont tous participé à la mise en place illégale de cookies publicitaires alors que les utilisateurs les ont expressément rejetés. noyb.eu dépose trois plaintes auprès de la CNIL liées au consentement de l’utilisateur à l’installation de cookies.
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