The CJEU rules that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people's data for ad targeting indefinitely, siding with privacy campaigner Max Schrems
The European Union's top court has sided with a privacy challenge to Meta's data retention policies.
A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears
without any public paper trail.” The data must flow. https://www.politico.com/... Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq : <rubs eyes> I'm sorry, a new one? Inside Biden's secret surveillance court - POLITICO...
The BEUC and its members follow noyb in filing a complaint against Meta's €9.99+/month subscriptions in the EU, saying the tier amounts to charging for privacy
branding it ‘unfair’ and ‘illegal’ Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv : Consumer groups file complaint against Meta's ‘pay-or-consent’ model X: Robert Bateman / @robertjbateman : If Meta's “consent or pay”...
The CJEU rules that Germany's Federal Cartel Office didn't overstep when ordering Meta to overhaul its ad business in 2019; Meta is “evaluating” the ruling
This request for a preliminary ruling concerns the interpretation of Article 4 … Wall Street Journal : Meta's Facebook Faces Fresh Threat to Sending Personalized Ads in EU Javier Espinoza / Financial ...
The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months
but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for its Facebook service (...
In a filing, Amazon disclosed EU privacy regulators fined the company a record $888M for violating GDPR data storage rules in a July 16 decision
or 1 in every 169 workers Nathan Ord / HotHardware.com News : Amazon Slapped With Nearly $900 Million Fine Over EU Privacy Violations Marketing Dive : Amazon ad sales jump 87% as company emphasizes ne...
Austria's Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” GDPR by treating a contract as consent to deliver targeted ads, following a request from Max Schrems
BREAKING: Austrian Supreme Court asks CJEU if Facebook “undermines” the GDPR by confusing ‘consent’ with an alleged ‘contract’.
EU privacy regulators are clashing over how much to fine Twitter for its handling of 2018 data breach, which could delay investigations into Facebook and Google
leading Ireland to for the first time invoke the GDPR's dispute-resolution mechanism. https://www.wsj.com/... Robert Ward / @robertalanward : More evidence that rules/standards an increasingly importa...
Privacy advocate Max Schrems criticizes Irish data protection authority in an open letter for the slow pace of its probes into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
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Privacy advocate Max Schrems criticizes Irish data protection authority in an open letter for the slow pace of its probes into Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp
- Privacy activist Max Schrems criticizes Irish data authority — Open letter urges EU action amid frustration over long probes