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April 25, 2023

EDPB promotes consistent approach for 101 NOYB data transfers complaints

The European DPAs published a report on the work of the task force established to investigate the 101 NOYB complaints.

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April 18, 2023

Austria challenges EU newspapers’ pay-or-cookie walls

Austrian data protection authority (DSB) made the ruling that readers be able to choose either ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to this type of cookie paywall.

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March 23, 2023

German parties accused of breaching data protection rules

NOYB has launched a series of complaints against Germany’s major political parties for violating EU data protection rules during the 2021 election campaign.

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March 15, 2023

noyb goes after data brokers on cookie use

noyb filed a series of complaints against websites and data brokers that did not correctly address access requests using cookies as an authentication factor.

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January 26, 2023

Data Protection Authorities support noyb’s call for fair yes/no cookie banners

A task force within the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued a draft report in reaction noyb’s 700 cookie banner complaints.

January 22, 2023

Meta avoideda €4BN GDPR fine over unlawful ads, says noyb

noyb is not satisfied with the €390 million privacy fine for Meta, sdays it had to be 4 billion euros.

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November 1, 2022

Where did all the “reject” buttons come from?!

More and more websites have added an option to say “no” to cookies and other tracking- as foreseen by the GDPR. Where did this trend come from?

September 8, 2022

Privacy complaint targets Google over unsolicited ad emails

Google has breached a European Union court ruling by sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inbox of Gmail users, advocacy group noyb said.