A nonprofit founded by privacy advocate Max Schrems has filed a complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming Android Ad ID violates GDPR
Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free - but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID
“The question arises, if an Android user can't say no to an ad ID tracker - where's their free choice to not be tracked by Google?” @TechCrunch wrote about our complaint against google and keeps asking some interesting questions 🧐 https://techcrunch.com/...
When Max Schrems was an Austrian law student doing a study-abroad semester at Stanford, he wrote a paper on Facebook's noncompliance with EU privacy law, based on a fumbled by FB's privacy counsel to his class. This led to a privacy complaint against Facebook in Ireland. 1/ https…
They further allege that Google's remedy to a GDPR request to halt processing of a users' data is merely to assign you a new tracking ID and continuing to track you. https://www.theregister.co.uk/ ... 4/
Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID. “You buy a new Android phone, but by adding a tracking ID they ship you a tracking device,” said Noyb lawyer https://www.theregister.co.uk/ ... via @theregister #privacy
Privacy pressure group Noyb has filed a legal complaint against Google on behalf of an Austrian citizen, claiming the Android Advertising ID on every Android device is “personal data” as defined by the EU's GDPR and that this data is illegally processed. https://www.theregister.c…