Activist lawyer Max Schrems of non-profit NOYB recently filed a complaint against tech giants Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube for allegedly not complying with the GDPR in Austria. Noyb said in its statement that the companies had failed to provide their users the exact data...
As many as 19 cross-border complaints which may lead to investigations have already been filed against Google and Facebook after EU’s new privacy rules kicked in last May 25. EU’s top privacy enforcer Andrea Jelinek said that they are already looking into the complaints, but...
Privacy campaigners recently took aim at Facebook once more, accusing the social network of using a trick to make users agree to its new privacy policy. Considered to be Facebook’s nemesis, activist Max Schrems launched another complaint against the company which says that the two...
Austrian activist Max Schrems, who has already been previously involved in a legal battle with Facebook, has recently filed complaints against Google, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for using a “take it or leave it” approach when imposing their terms of service on users. According to Schrems,...
Facebook had reportedly made a last ditch effort to block the referral of its Irish privacy case to the European Court of Justice to avoid a ban on the legal instrument that allows the company to send user data back to the US. It is said...
It was revealed earlier this week that the CJEU has delivered a verdict allowing privacy campaigner Max Schrems to file a suit against Facebook in his home city of Vienna. The EU top court rejected Facebook’s argument that said Schrems did not have consumer rights...
Justice Caroline Costello of the Irish High Court recently announced that she will be taking time to determine what questions to present to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) with regards to the EU-US privacy case involving Facebook and activist Max Schrems. The...
Max Schrems, an activist who recently generated international attention for facing off with Facebook in a privacy lawsuit in Europe, recently revealed plans to set up a non-profit organizations focused on defending the privacy rights of the individual. Schrems says that the organization, called NOYB (None...