Tag: austria
  • Dec 6, 2023 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Social Media,

Meta’s New Ad-Free Subscriptions Are Already Under Legal Attack from Privacy Activists

Back in August we wrote about Meta’s surprise announcement that it would seek consent from users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland before showing them behavioral advertisements. A few weeks ago, Meta provided more details of the proposed change. It turned out that users would be required to pay a substantial subscription fee – €120 … Continue reading “Meta’s New Ad-Free Subscriptions Are Already Under Legal Attack from Privacy Activists”

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  • Oct 28, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Copyright, Cybersecurity, Encryption, Governments, Social Media, VPN,

Special Advisor to CJEU Confirms It’s a VPN’s World

For what is probably the first time, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court, is considering a case about the use of VPNs. When the CJEU hands down its final judgment, the ruling is likely to have important ramifications for accessing copyright material in the EU, for people both … Continue reading “Special Advisor to CJEU Confirms It’s a VPN’s World”

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  • Feb 4, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Google’s Surveillance Advertising Model under Attack on Both Sides of the Atlantic for Its Deep Privacy Problems

PIA blog has just written about a major problem for Google: a decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuing use of Google Analytics violates the EU’s GDPR legislation. The post noted that the Dutch Data Protection Authority is also investigating the use of Google Analytics; now it seems that France may follow … Continue reading “Google’s Surveillance Advertising Model under Attack on Both Sides of the Atlantic for Its Deep Privacy Problems”

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  • Jan 24, 2022 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Bombshell Decision That Use of Google Analytics in Austria Violates Top EU Court’s Ruling Boosts GDPR Impact Again

The GDPR is finally beginning to make itself felt more strongly, as a series of blog posts have noted. The situation is summed up in a new “DLA Piper GDPR fines and data breach survey”. Compared with the previous year, total GDPR fines have increased from $179 million to $1.2 billion. But as the report … Continue reading “Bombshell Decision That Use of Google Analytics in Austria Violates Top EU Court’s Ruling Boosts GDPR Impact Again”

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  • Dec 9, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Schrems vs. DPC Battle Heats Up, as New Document Suggests Irish Privacy Body Tried to Weaken GDPR

The privacy campaigner Max Schrems has been doggedly fighting to force Facebook to respect EU users’ privacy for nearly a decade now. As this blog has reported, there have been many twists and turns in the saga. Earlier this year, it seemed that the key player responsible for enforcing the protection of Facebook users in … Continue reading “Schrems vs. DPC Battle Heats Up, as New Document Suggests Irish Privacy Body Tried to Weaken GDPR”

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  • Aug 18, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Will Privacy Activist Max Schrems’ New Legal Action Against Facebook at EU’s Highest Court Prove to Be His Most Important Yet?

Given the by-now inarguable importance of data protection to the online world today, it is extraordinary that one person and his organization have almost single-handedly shaped the privacy landscape there. The lawyer and activist Max Schrems, along with his NOYB.eu group, have featured many times on this blog. So many times, in fact, that it … Continue reading “Will Privacy Activist Max Schrems’ New Legal Action Against Facebook at EU’s Highest Court Prove to Be His Most Important Yet?”

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  • May 11, 2021 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Encryption, General Privacy News, Governments, Social Media, Surveillance,

Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise

A recurrent theme on this blog has been the growing importance of controlling cross-border data flows, in part because of concerns about privacy. One increasingly popular approach with governments is to require data localization, whereby a country’s personal data remains within its borders. Although some companies like Facebook have been fighting this tendency, others providing … Continue reading “Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise”

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  • Mar 27, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

Telecoms across Europe are sharing phone location data with governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

A telecommunications lobbying group, the GSMA, has confirmed that several telecom companies in Europe are providing mobile phone location data with the European Union as a way to track the spread of COVID-19. According to Reuters and other media sources, these are the telecommunications companies that are working with the European Union to provide “anonymized” … Continue reading “Telecoms across Europe are sharing phone location data with governments as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic”

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  • Nov 25, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

EU’s ePrivacy regulation is being subverted by publishers who want their “right” to use tracking cookies enshrined in law

Last year, Privacy News Online wrote about the important EU ePrivacy legislation. As that noted, it was moving through the EU’s legislative process slowly because of massive lobbying against the new law, which aims to regulate how metadata is gathered and used, and to limit how people are tracked online, for example using cookies. A … Continue reading “EU’s ePrivacy regulation is being subverted by publishers who want their “right” to use tracking cookies enshrined in law”

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