Die 🇦🇹 Datenschutzbehörde DSB wird von der Regierung weiter gelähmt: 2024 gab es bei 3.813 Beschwerden nur 62 Strafen. Jetzt drohen noch mehr Kürzungen. Gemeinsam mit @noyb.eu bringen wir Beschwerde bei der EU-Kommission ein. Mehr dazu auf unserem Blog 👉 epicenter.works/content/budg...

🚨 A former Meta lobbyist will join the DPC as a commissioner in October. With this appointment, the Irish government does not even pretend to care about enforcing EU law anymore. Read our full statement on the matter here: noyb.eu/en/former-me...

🚨 Together with @epicenterworks.bsky.social, we've filed a complaint with the EU Commission because the Austrian government is failing to properly fund the country's data protection authority. Despite an increasing workload, the DPA's budget was cut. Read all about it here: noyb.eu/en/budget-cu...

Automation is helping various actors of the data economy, but also raises numerous questions. At CPDP 2025, one of our developers, Stefan Schauer, took part in the panel discussing this topic. Watch/listen here 👉 https://youtu.be/_kj1LDQMURc?si=CK6-LjMqE103iiZd

📢 I interviewed @noyb.eu's @maxschrems.bsky.social to discuss what he thought of EU-US data transfers, and the outcome of the Latombe case, check out what is next for Data Privacy Framework court challenges: www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

🎥 Der gestrige ORF-Eco-Bericht zum Thema CRIF/Kreditauskunfteien ist jetzt online verfügbar. 🎙️ Inkl. #Interview mit Max Schrems und einer offiziellen Stellungnahme der #CRIF 💬 👉 Hier ansehen: https://on.orf.at/video/14290129/15942586/zweifelhafte-bonitaet-heimliche-bewertung-der-oesterreicher

📰 "Google […] had sent advertising emails directly to the inboxes of Gmail users. ‘This is only permitted with prior consent – a fact that the CNIL has now confirmed,’ commented Noyb chairman Max Schrems." 💬 (from German) 🔗Read more

🎉 Thanks to our most recent win, noyb litigation is now officially responsible for more than €2 billion in administrative fines! As a donation-funded NGO, our work is made possible by our 5,250+ Supporting Members. 👉 Join noyb as a Supporting Member! noyb.eu/en/support-us

📰💰 "The CNIL handed Google a €325 million fine on Wednesday for inserting advertising between Gmail users' emails and dropping tracking cookies without consent. The fine [...] follows a 2022 complaint by privacy group Noyb."

🎉 noyb WIN! The French DPA has fined Google €325 million for creating spam emails in Gmail The desicison is based on a noyb complaint from 2022. Read all about it here 👇 https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-french-dpa-fines-google-eu325-million-spam-emails-gmail

📺 Morgen 22:30 auf ORF2 und ON: "Zweifelhafte Abfragen – wie unsere Bonität heimlich bewertet wird" 💬 "Meist basieren diese [Kreditwürdigkeits-Scores] bei CRIF nur auf Alter, Geschlecht und Wohnadresse, kritisiert der Datenschützer Max Schrems."

📰 "The Austrian data protection authority has ordered YouTube to give users access to their personal data, enforcing data access rules contained in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)." www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

🎉 noyb WIN: YouTube ordered to honour user’s right of access The Austrian DPA has sided with noyb and ordered Google to fully answer the complainant's access request in accordance with Article 15 GDPR. More information 👇 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...

Keine freiwillige Einwilligung: Gericht rüffelt Cookie-Banner beim „Der Standard“. Fachleute bezweifeln nicht nur die Rechtmäßigkeit der „Pay or Okay“-Modelle, sondern auch die finanzielle Notwendigkeit netzpolitik.org/2025/trackin...

🗞️ "Fachleute bezweifeln nicht nur die Rechtmäßigkeit, sondern auch die finanzielle Notwendigkeit [von Pay or OK]. Laut einem Bericht von #noyb stammen nur etwa 10 % der Einnahmen von Medienhäusern aus digitaler Werbung und >5 % aus der Verarbeitung von personenbezogener Daten." 👇 Weiterlesen

🗞️⚖️ "The Austrian Federal Administrative Court has confirmed that the "Pay or Okay" consent model violates European data protection laws, delivering a significant ruling against leading newspaper DerStandard.at on August 18, 2025." 👀 Read more

📰⚖️ "‘Pay or Okay’ is keeping courts busy in various European countries. In Austria, the Federal Administrative Court has now ruled on the case of the newspaper Der Standard – and is demanding significant improvements." (from German) 👀 Read more: www.heise.de/news/Zahlen-...

📰 Article on our case against #DerStandard 💬 with quote from Max Schrems: "'Pay or OK' undermines a core pillar of the #GDPR: freely given consent. Instead of a genuine choice of users, we get a North Korean consent rate of 99.9% with this system." 👉 www.euronews.com/next/2025/08...

📰 "[noyb] has been campaigning against 'Pay or OK' cookie banners such as those used by ‘Der Standard’ for several years. It now feels validated in its criticism by a recent ruling of the Federal Administrative Court (BVwG)." (from German) 👉 Read more: www.diepresse.com/20011600/rec...

📰🧑‍⚖️ The Austrian Federal Administrative Court (BVwG) just confirmed that "Der Standard" - a newspaper based in Vienna, Austria - violated the GDPR when introducing "Pay or Okay". 👉 Read more about the case here: https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-illegal

📊 The Gallup Institute conducted a study among 1,000 #Meta users in Germany. The results are clear: Only 7% actually want their #Facebook and #Instagram data to be used by Meta for #AI training. 👀 Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai

🕵️ Would you like to receive regular updates on our current projects and stay on top of all things privacy? 🐦 You can sign up to our newsletter here: https://newsletter.noyb.eu/pf/433/TdOop #MakingPrivacyReality

Heute wohl für @noyb.eu im #ZDFheute journal um 21:45 zur Frage wie sich #BigTech in #Irland prächtig vor EU-Gesetzen verstecken - und die Europäische Kommission zuschaut.. 😐 Details zu unseren über 800 #DSGVO - Fällen in ganz Europa auf www.noyb.eu 😊

📺 @maxschrems.bsky.social war gestern zu Gast bei @zdfheuteshow.bsky.social, um u.a. über die mangelnden Durchsetzung von EU-Recht zu sprechen. Wir arbeiten täglich für eine gerechtere Zukunft. Unterstütze uns dabei! 👉 noyb.eu/en/support www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...

🙅 #Meta's enthusiasm for training its #AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves […] according a study commissioned by #Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group #Noyb. 👀 Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/

📰 Anstatt um eine Einwilligung zu bitten und gegebenenfalls ein „Nein“ als Antwort zu erhalten, stelle #Meta seine wirtschaftlichen Interessen über das Recht auf #Datenschutz von mindestens 274 Millionen EU-Nutzer:innen. Lies mehr 👉 taz.de/Kuenstliche-...

🔐 #SecureDrop is an anonymity tool for journalists and whistleblowers. 📬 Anonymously submit documents and communicate with our lawyers. 💬 To find out more, visit 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/securedrop

🚨 We conducted a survey on Meta AI and the actual wishes of EU users 👉 Only 7% actually want Meta to take their data for AI training 👉 Only 40% saw Meta's warnings 👉 27% of Meta users (at least 68 million) haven't even heard about the plans noyb.eu/en/noyb-surv...

🫥 Not knowing whether the data controllers have ever even been served with our complaints, we were asked by the DPA if we're still interested in them. ⭐ 📩 Would you like to receive regular updates on our current projects? 🐦 Sign up to our newsletter: https://newsletter.noyb.eu/pf/433/TdOop

🎉 Our annual report for 2024 is out now! ⚖️📋 If you’re interested in a detailed summary of all our cases, fines imposed, and interesting information about our team and finances in 2024, take a look at the full report here: 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/annual-report-2024-out-now

🗞️ "According to the Vienna-based NGO Noyb, anyone who has to either pay or view advertising on Instagram is not able to make a free choice." (Translated from German) 👉 Read the full @derstandard.at article: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

📺 The reportage "The Swedish Tax Agency sells your personal data" with Joakim Söderberg, one of noyb's Data Protection Lawyers, is now available on the Bubkes Youtube channel. 🇸🇪🇬🇧 Subtitles also available in English. 👇 Watch now! https://youtu.be/zHOWBDNiW_I?si=OqPpVrt05IB7buaT

📰 “Right now, users are effectively and unlawfully nudged towards ‘consenting’ to being tracked. The EDPB now has the opportunity to take a clear stance on this issue in its upcoming guidelines,” said Felix Mikolasch, data protection lawyer at noyb. 👇 Read the full article

🎉 noyb WIN! Following a 2021 complaint, Grindr has stopped requiring users to provide a selfie, along with their email address and ID before complying with access requests. 👉 In addition, Grindr has to make it easier for users to access their data. The original complaint: noyb.eu/en/want-your...

🎉📋 Just in time for a court hearing in our proceedings against the Austrian daily newspaper derStandard, we are publishing a new report on 'Pay or Okay'. 👉 The report analyses the industry’s arguments and the actual economic impact of ‘Pay or Okay’.

📈 In order to keep noyb running, we need stable, long-term funding. 🤝 You can play an integral part in this task by joining us as a Supporting Member. We are grateful for any amount you want to invest! 👉 Join noyb as a Supporting Member! https://noyb.eu/en/support-us #MakePrivacyReality

👀 @efe.com​ «Según la legislación de la UE, las transferencias de datos fuera de la UE solo están permitidas si el país de destino no socava la protección de los datos» 👇 seguir leyendo

📰​​ "Datenschützer legen Beschwerde gegen TikTok und andere chinesische Unternehmen ein." 👇 Lies mehr @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy​

📰 Kleanthi Sardeli: "Les entreprises de technologie adorent collecter autant de données que possible à votre sujet, mais refusent catégoriquement de vous en donner l'accès complet, comme l'exige pourtant la législation européenne" 👀 Lire plus 👇

🎧 @maxschrems.bsky.social​​ war zum Thema "Die neuen Facetten des Widerstands" zu Gast im Ö1​ Radiokolleg. 👇 Hör rein!

👩🏻‍⚖️💬 „Tech-Unternehmen lieben es, so viele Daten wie möglich über ihre Nutzer zu sammeln, weigern sich aber vehement, ihnen vollen Zugang im Einklang mit dem EU-Recht zu geben“, sagte noyb-Juristin Kleanthi Sardeli. @orfnewsbot.bsky.social​ 👉 Lies weiter:

📰 Ursula Pachl von der Organisation noyb wirft Facebook unzählige Datenschutzverstöße [...] vor: "Meta muss sein Geschäftsmodell anpassen." 👇 Lies mehr

🗞️ "TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat stand accused of failing to live up to the General Data Protection Regulation’s rules on data access. Noyb [...] has filed a trio of data protection complaints." | Article by @euractiv.com​ 👀 Read more:

📰💬 "TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat love collecting as much data about you as possible – but vehemently refuse to give you full access as required by EU law," said Kleanthi Sardeli, data protection lawyer at noyb. | Article by @reuters.com​ 👉 Read more:

🚨 Today, we've filed complaints against TikTok, AliExpress and WeChat 👉 All of them failed to comply with access requests. This makes it impossible for Europeans to exercise their right to privacy and find out how their data is being processed. noyb.eu/en/how-tikto...

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🎙️ @maxschrems.bsky.social was invited to talk with Prof. Dr. Christiane Wendehorst (University of Vienna) and @fredomatikus.bsky.social about the current debate around #GDPR reform.

🎙️ noyb-Jurist Martin Baumann war zu Gast im Deutschlandfunk-Podcast zum Thema KI und Privatsphäre Hier reinhören: 👉 https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ki-privatsphaere-datenschutz-chatgpt-100.html

📰 "Privacy groups see “a lot of potential” in collective redress as a new avenue, especially for GDPR breaches by Big Tech…" 👉 Politico on collective redress actions in Europe: https://www.politico.eu/article/great-multiplier-europe-privacy-groups-class-action-against-big-tech/

🚨 We need YOUR insight! Tell us which aspect of your #GDPR compliance work takes the most time – and which are the most important #privacy protections. 👉 It takes only 5 minutes: https://survey.noyb.eu/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=155348&lang=en#GDPR#privacy