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17.04.2025
National Administrative Procedures and DPA inactivity

EU pledged to improve GDPR cooperation - and made it worse

The EU's GDPR Procedural Regulation was supposed to fix overly complex procedures and improve cooperation. Now, it could actually undermine enforcement

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03.04.2025
Data Subject Rights

noyb takes Swedish tax authority to court for selling people’s personal data

In Sweden, the tax authority doesn’t just use people's personal information for administrative purposes – but sells it to data brokers who publish it online.

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20.03.2025
Artificial Intelligence

AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

ChatGPT created a fake story about a Norwegian man, claiming that he killed his two children and went to jail. This never happened

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27.02.2025
Data Subject Rights

Swedbank refuses transparency in automatic interest calculation

Swedish bank Swedbank falsely claims that the logic behind the automatic interest rate calculation is a "trade secret"

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21.02.2025
Political Microtargeting, Manipulation & Tracking

Snap Election faster than German DPAs: Microtargeting continues to influence voters

The German DPAs still haven't decided in the cases against the use of political microtargeting by German political parties

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12.02.2025
Data Subject Rights

WetterOnline sees "disproportionate effort" in complying with the GDPR

WetterOnline shares the personal data of its users with more than 800 third-party companies for advertising purposes

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Microsoft software accused of breaching data rights of EU schoolchildren
NOYB claims that software vendors like US tech giant Microsoft ignore GDPR rights by “dumping” legal responsibilities under the EU’s privacy rules on schools that provide the software for educational purposes.

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Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok
X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has been targeted with a series of privacy complaints after it helped itself to the data of users in the European Union for training AI models without asking people’s consent.

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Schrems NGO files GDPR complaint against OpenAI over AI ‘hallucinations’
Noyb, the Austrian non-profit founded by activist Max Schrems, has filed a complaint with the local privacy authority, alleging that OpenAI has violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and has not done enough to correct inaccurate personal information provided by ChatGPT.

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Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down
The decision to halt AI training using EU content follows complaints to data protection agencies in 11 European countries – and those agencies, led by Ireland, telling the Facebook giant to scrap the slurp.

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Meta must limit data use for targeted advertising, top EU court rules
Meta Platforms must restrict the use of personal data harvested from Facebook for targeted advertising, Europe's top court ruled on Friday, backing privacy activist Max Schrems.

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We enforce your right to privacy.

EU pledged to improve GDPR cooperation - and made it worse

noyb takes Swedish tax authority to court for selling people’s personal data

AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer

Swedbank refuses transparency in automatic interest calculation

Snap Election faster than German DPAs: Microtargeting continues to influence voters

WetterOnline sees "disproportionate effort" in complying with the GDPR

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