"Black box" Amazon: algorithm discriminate customers. noyb filed another complaint against Amazon Europe today. The e-commerce giant offers customers the possibility to pay for products later via "Monthly Invoice". A customer who was rejected for this payment method without any reasons given subm...

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Data voodoo: credit ranking agency CRIF creates credit rating out of thin air. Data protection authority also demands disclosure of "scoring" logic. After about a year, the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) finally issued a decision on our first complaint against the credit reporting agenc...

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Today, noyb filed complaints against the cookie paywalls of seven major German and Austrian news websites. An increasing amount of websites asks their users to either agree to data being passed on to hundreds of tracking companies or take out a subscription.

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New browser signal could make cookie banners obsolete

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Buy a phone, get a tracker: unauthorized tracking code illegally installed on Android phones. noyb launched further action against Google’s AAID (Android Advertising Identifier), following similar complaints against Apple’s IDFA. The somewhat hidden ID allows Google and all apps to track a user

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"Grindr" to be fined almost € 10 Mio over GDPR complaint. The Gay Dating App was illegally sharing sensitive data of millions of users.

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Luxemburg’s Data Protection watchdog refuses to show its teeth to US companies. noyb files court case.

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My Privacy is None of Your Business

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Irish DPC settles Judicial Review and agrees to decide swiftly on Facebook's EU-US transfers. Blocked procedure on Facebook's EU-US data flows can continue.

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