Advocacy group threatens Meta with injunction over use of EU data for AI trainingNOYB (none of your business), led by privacy activist Max Schrems, said it had sent a cease and desist letter on Wednesday to Meta which pl...
14 May, 2025, 11.07 AM IST
Meta says will resume AI training with public content from European usersMeta will resume using public content from EU users to train its AI, after pausing due to privacy concerns. It excludes private messages an...
14 Apr, 2025, 07.57 PM IST
Meta to offer less personalised ads in Europe to appease regulatorsOver the coming weeks, people in the EU who use the company's social media platforms for free with ads, will be able to choose to see ads b...
13 Nov, 2024, 09.14 AM IST
X hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI trainingThe group led by privacy activist Max Schrems announced that it had filed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints with authori...
12 Aug, 2024, 08.27 PM IST
Alphabet hit with Austrian privacy complaint over alleged browser trackingGoogle has introduced a set of tools called the Privacy Sandbox to block covert tracking techniques and limit data sharing with third parti...
14 Jun, 2024, 08.49 AM IST
Meta hit with privacy complaints in Europe over AI plansA Vienna-based privacy campaign group filed complaints in 11 European countries against Meta on Thursday, saying the global tech giant's pl...
06 Jun, 2024, 10.45 AM IST
Privacy activist Schrems files complaints against Google's FitbitAdvocacy group Noyb on Thursday filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy accusing the fitness tra...
31 Aug, 2023, 10.55 AM IST
Digital rights group NOYB challenges Ryanair's use of facial recognitionThe Irish airline, Europe's largest by passenger numbers, says on its website that in order to comply with safety and security requirements...
27 Jul, 2023, 07.07 PM IST
EU announces new US data transfer pact, but challenge aheadThe EU executive said measures taken by the United States ensured an adequate level of protection for Europeans' personal data transferred ...
10 Jul, 2023, 10.56 PM IST
Europe signs off on a new privacy pact that allows people's data to keep flowing to USUnder the deal, U.S. intelligence agencies' access to data is limited to what's "necessary and proportionate" to protect national security....
10 Jul, 2023, 10.14 PM IST
EU Commission revamps procedures to speed up Big Tech privacy probesStung by criticism of tardy privacy investigations and the Irish privacy regulator's outsized role in overseeing Big Tech, the European Com...
05 Jul, 2023, 08.03 AM IST
Meta cannot run ads based on personal data, rules EU privacy watchdog: sourceThe Irish data protection agency, which oversees Meta because its European headquarters is located in Dublin, has been given a month to iss...
07 Dec, 2022, 08.25 AM IST
Privacy activists in EU file complaints over iPhone trackingNOYB says the iOS operating system creates unique codes for each iPhone that allow Apple and other third parties to “identify users across ...
16 Nov, 2020, 04.20 PM IST
Privacy activist files complaints against Apple's tracking toolIt is the first such major action against the U.S. technology group in regards to European Union privacy rules.
16 Nov, 2020, 12.44 PM IST
Google loses appeal against €50 million French fineFrance's highest administrative authority on Friday dismissed a challenge by Google against a fine of 50 million euros ($56 million) for fa...
19 Jun, 2020, 10.03 PM IST
Facebook US data transfer case goes to Europe's top courtThe European Court of Justice is hearing arguments on July 9 on whether Facebook's Dublin-based subsidiary can legally transfer users' pers...
09 Jul, 2019, 06.13 PM IST
Facebook's arch nemesis, Max Schrems, says he’d raised data breach alarm bells in 2011Schrems has taken on Facebook many times and won a landmark European Union court ruling in 2015.
21 Mar, 2018, 07.07 PM IST