In 2025, noyb filed 21 new GDPR complaints, launched its first collective redress project and worked on the EU Commission’s ...

Si la Comisión Europea y los Estados miembros de la UE se salen con la suya, el denominado «Omnibus digital» supondrá un cambio fundamental en la legislación de la UE en materia de protección de datos ...

In 2020, noyb has filed a complaint against the online advertising company Xandr for processing personal data from the dating app Grindr. This decision is a major blow to the online adtech industry.

Which Member of the EU Parliament wants to reduce people's privacy? noyb has analysed over 1,000 GDPR and ePrivacy amendments ...

Si la Commission européenne et les États membres de l'UE parviennent à leurs fins, le « Digital Omnibus » entraînera une modification fondamentale de la législation européenne en matière de protection ...

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental ...

Max Schrems, Chair of noyb: “SCHUFA’s arguments are utterly grotesque. Apparently, SCHUFA believes itself to be some sort of semi-divine institution that stands above European law. We look forward to ...

For once, EU legislators have an opportunity to deliver genuine simplification for people: a solution to the ongoing issue of misleading cookie banners. As part of its highly controversial Digital ...

Change of purpose not permitted. The principle of purpose limitation (Article 5(1)(b) GDPR) generally prohibits companies from reusing data processed for one purpose for other purposes. For example, ...

On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the ...

CRIF is one of the largest credit reference agencies in Austria. It has built up a largely unknown "shadow registry" containing the names, dates of birth and addresses of almost all adults in Austria.

No “abuse” by data subjects, but by companies. Following intense lobby pressure (especially by the German industry), the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus proposal argues that there’s a need to ...