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'Imminent' Verdict From EU Data Officials on Romania's €20m Threat

January 25, 2019 • by LibertiesEU

European Union data protection authorities have reached an agreement on how to address the threat by Romania's data chief to impose a €20 million fine on several journalists who exposed high-level corruption in the country. Giovanni Buttarelli, the EU'...
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- Romania
- Data
- corruption
- journalism
German Antitrust Watchdog to Ask Facebook to Stop Collecting Some Data

January 14, 2019 • by LibertiesEU

The Federal Cartel Office plans to order Facebook to stop gathering some user data, it states in a new fresh report. According to German media sources, the watchdog will present the social media firm with a ruling on what action it needs to take in the...
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Austrian Post Office in Data-Selling Scandal

January 09, 2019 • by LibertiesEU

Austria's national Post Office is facing intense criticism for collecting and selling its customers' data. According to the investigative journalism website Addendum, the postal service sold the names, addresses, age and gender of roughly three million...
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- privacy
- Data
- Austria
Civil Rights Groups Call on Facebook Leaders to Step Down

December 18, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

In a letter sent on Monday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, twenty-nine civil rights groups call on him and COO Sheryl Sandberg to step down, citing years of the company's role in "generating bigotry and hatred towards vulnerable communities." The righ...
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- privacy
- internet
- Data
- Facebook
Facebook CEO to Meet European Parliamentarians

May 17, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with leaders of the European Parliament to discuss the improper use of millions of users’ data by a political consultancy firm. Zuckerberg will meet as soon as next week with EP party leaders and members of the Co...
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- privacy
- Data
- Facebook
Austria Accused of Undercutting EU Data Regulations

May 08, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

A law passed last month by Austria's right-wing government could undermine the enforcement of new EU data protection rules set to enter into force at the end of May. The new Austrian law demands the country's data protection chief to first issue warnin...
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- Data
- Austria
- GDPR
Social Media Apps Make Changes to Meet EU Regulations

April 26, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Social media companies are making changes to their services ahead of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entering force on May 25. Snapchat now says it will stop retaining certain data, including precise location history, about users in Europ...
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- privacy
- European Union
- internet
- Data
- EU
- social media
- GDPR
EU Data Privacy Chiefs Wary of Lagging Member States

February 12, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

Authorities who work at EU level may be unable to fully enforce a new data protection regulation after May because of lagging member state legislation. The General Data Protection Regulation, a massive overhaul of EU law with far-reaching implications ...
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- privacy
- Data
- EU
European Rights Groups Join US Privacy Case

January 26, 2018 • by Tommaso Fusco , Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

Earlier this month, Privacy International, together with legal scholars and 26 human and digital rights organisations, including Liberties member the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, filed an amicus brief to the United States Supreme C...
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- privacy
- Data
- US
- Ireland
- United States
Austrian Privacy Activist Launches NGO to Fund Facebook Data Suits

December 08, 2017 • by LibertiesEU

Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer who overturned the Safe Harbour agreement by suing Facebook and changed how personal data transfer of European users can take place to the US, has founded an NGO called None of Your Business (NOYB). The organisation’s go...
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- privacy
- Data
- NGOs
- Safe Harbour