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#FixAdTech Campaign In The Media

Google and digital advertising firms are the targets of fresh privacy complaints filed in six EU countries in December over the way they sell ads to potential advertisers through a bidding process. See key media reports about our latest campaign.

FixAdTech , Digital privacy , GDPR
December 14, 2020 • LibertiesEU
New Privacy Complaints Filed In Against Invasive Online Advertising

Organisations from 6 countries have today lodged complaints with their data protection authorities about the behavioural advertising industry’s harmful practices of broadcasting people’s personal data on the internet.

GDPR , FixAdTech
December 10, 2020 • LibertiesEU
​NGOs Urge Default Transparency in Online Political Advertising

Civil society organisations push for full transparency of political ads online to avoid misleading and disguised ads, which can easily distort political preferences.

privacy data , GDPR
September 09, 2020 • LibertiesEU
Commission Has Clear Legal Grounds to Pursue Hungary to Protect Free Speech and Privacy

As Orban continues his assault on rights and freedoms, we urge the Commission to use the tools it has to protect the rights to free speech and personal data.

GDPR , Digital privacy
May 15, 2020 • LibertiesEU
Joint Letter: Hungarian Government Decision To Limit GPDR Disproportionate and Unjustified

Liberties, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, and Access Now recommend that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ask the EU Commission to launch an infringement procedure against Hungary.

Digital privacy , GDPR , #humanrightsundercorona
May 13, 2020 • LibertiesEU
FaceApp Privacy Issues Are Real But Not Unique

FaceApp’s new old-age filter is fun — who doesn’t want to see into the future? But getting a look at yourself with wrinkles and white hair comes at the expense of your privacy.

Digital privacy , GDPR , Russia , online
July 30, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Google Fined 50m Euros by French Data Watchdog

Google has been fined for the first time under the new EU privacy regulation after France’s CNIL data protection authority handed down a 50 m euro penalty for breaching the privacy law by failing to obtain adequate...

Google , Privacy , GDPR , data regulation , French
January 22, 2019 • LibertiesEU
Romania May Be Using GDPR to Intimidate Journalists

The Romanian data protection authority has sent questions to journalists who authored an article on a corruption case, and has asked for information which could reveal the article’s sources.

GDPR , Romania , #Teleormanleaks , corruption , politicians , Privacy , data protections , journalists
November 27, 2018 • The Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – the Helsinki Committee
Romania 'Using EU Data Protection Law to Silence Journalists'

Reporters of the investigative Rise project in Romania were ordered last Thursday to reveal their sources or face huge fines under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Organised Crime and Corruption...

Romania , GDPR , transparency
November 12, 2018 • LibertiesEU
Apple CEO Warns Data Being 'Weaponized'

Apple CEO Tim Cook expressed his company’s supports for Europe’s news data protection regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). At the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy...

Apple , data protection , GDPR , European Union , Privacy
October 25, 2018 • LibertiesEU
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