Notices by noyb.eu (noybeu@mastodon.social)

🎆 Traineeship opportunity: Start off 2025 at noyb!
👉 Looking for a path into data protection? GDPR enforcement is your New Year’s resolutions? We’ve got you covered!

We are delighted to announce another ⚖️ legal traineeship opening in gorgeous Vienna, starting in Jan 2025. As an NGO for digital rights, we’re looking for bright new people in strategic litigation.

You are interested and hold an EEA law degree? Apply now!

🎯 Further details at https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2024-10/Trainee_v2024_new.pdf, apply link in the pdf.

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🎉 noyb WIN! RTL Belgium was ordered to add a "refuse all" button to the first layer of its cookie banner and stop using deceptive colors.

In case of non-compliance, the company will have to pay €40.000 per day.

👉 DPA decision (FR): https://www.dataprotectionauthority.be/publications/beslissing-ten-gronde-nr.-131-2024.pdf

👉 Our original complaints: https://noyb.eu/en/belgian-dpa-let-news-outlets-buy-themselves-free-gdpr-compliance

🚨 The Irish DPC has launched an inquiry into Ryanair's invasive facial recognition process, following a complaint from noyb!

https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/data-protection-commission-launches-inquiry-ryanairs-customer-verification-process

#FunFact: Meta has decided that our posting on them violating the GDPR would violate their "community standards" and deleted it several times on http://facebook.com..

"Meta has suffered a serious challenge to its preferred business model of collecting, aggregating and leveraging substantial data troves "

Read more on today's CJEU ruling on BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gr4r5ln03o

TechCrunch on noyb's complaint against Mozilla for quietly enabling a supposed “privacy feature” in Firefox

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/mozilla-hit-with-privacy-complaint-in-eu-over-firefox-tracking-tech/

⚖ Thanks to the GDPR, EU users can take action if they think their personal data is being processed illegally.

❓ How does that work? We have compiled resources to help you exercise your rights!

👉 Today, let's take a look at the right to object!

https://noyb.eu/en/your-right-object-article-21

⚖ Thanks to the GDPR, EU users can take action if they think their personal data is being processed illegally.

❓ How does that work? We have compiled resources to help you exercise your rights!

👉 Let's take a look at the right to withdraw consent!

https://noyb.eu/en/your-right-withdraw-your-consent-article-73

🚨 Firefox quietly enabled a supposed “privacy feature” that tracks users - noyb files complaint today!
Read more here: https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature

🎉🇧🇪 noyb win: Following our complaints from 2023, the Belgian data protection authority has ordered four major Belgian news sites
▶️ to bring their cookie banners into GDPR compliance and
▶️ imposes potential penalty of €50,000 per day per website
Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-belgian-dpa-settlement-turned-proper-legal-orders-deceptive-cookie-banners

BREAKING: (Preliminary) noyb win: Meta stops using EU/EEA data for "Meta AI" after 11 complaints by noyb and mounting criticism by other EU/EEA data protection authorities! 😀🥂

https://noyb.eu/en/preliminary-noyb-win-meta-stops-ai-plans-eu

🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against Google for tricking Chrome users into ad tracking!

👉 Google's so-called Privacy Sandbox is presented as a privacy feature. But when users enable it, they are unknowingly consenting to online tracking.

More details:
https://noyb.eu/en/google-sandbox-online-tracking-instead-privacy

🚨 noyb has filed 11 complaints against Meta to prevent the abuse of people's personal data for Artificial Intelligence!

👉 We urgently request the data protection authorities to launch an urgency procedure and immediately stop the company's move!

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-urges-11-dpas-immediately-stop-metas-abuse-personal-data-ai

🚨 noyb has filed two complaints against #Microsoft (365 Education) for violating children's data protection rights!

👉 The company shifts responsibility for #GDPR compliance to local schools...

👉 ...and places tracking cookies without consent

Read all about it here:

https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school

🚨 In case you missed it: We filed a complaint against OpenAI on Monday!

Read all about it on The Register 👇

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/openai_hit_by_gdpr_complaint/

🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ChatGPT creator OpenAI

OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct false information about people on ChatGPT. The company cannot even say where the data comes from.

Read all about it here 👇

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

🚨 Breaking via Politico: #GDPR #BREAKING:

The EDPB takes the view that "large online platforms" like Meta cannot rely on a "pay or okay" system to get "freely given" consent. [Details to follow]

First noyb statement:

https://noyb.eu/en/statement-edpb-pay-or-okay-opinion

🚨 We are hiring another #FullStack #Developer to join our tech team in Vienna!

🎥 Have you ever wondered why more and more websites implement 'Pay or Okay' systems?

In our new video, we explain what it is all about and why the approach is dangerous for free consent online!

⏩ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybSRk7mFbk

👉 Still not sure what to make of Meta's 'Pay or Okay' model?

Researcheres at Utrecht University have come to the conclusion that it violates the GDPR, as it fails to ensure that consent is freely given.

📝 Read the full paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4787609