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🎉 noyb WIN: in line with its most recent decisions, the Belgian DPA has once again confirmed that noyb can validly represent affiliated people in complaints. As the complaint is considered admissible, the next step is to discuss the merits.

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🎉 Today, the EU's General Court held that the Irish DPC acted unlawful when it refused to investigate a noyb complaint More info here:

🎉 Happy Data Protection Day! This year, we used the occasion to take a closer look at the (in)activity of European DPAs 👉 Turns out: On average, only 1.3% of cases before EU DPAs result in a fine 💸❌ More details and statistics on our website 👇

The New York Times reports that Trump is making the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board de facto inoperable. This punches the first major hole in EU-US data transfers agreement (TADPF). Using US Cloud providers could quickly violate the GDPR.

📰 "Die Weitergabe personenbezogener Daten von Europäern ist eindeutig rechtswidrig – und muss sofort eingestellt werden." 👉 Der Spiegel über unsere Beschwerden zu unrechtmäßigen Datentransfers nach China:

👉 According to the privacy group, AliExpress, SHEIN, TikTok and Xiaomi "transfer data to China", while Temu and WeChat mention transfers to "third countries". 🚨 France 24 about our complaints over data transfers to China:

📰 "TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb which claimed the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China." Reuters on our Complaints:

🚨 Today, we've filed six complaints against the Chinese tech companies @shoptemu, @SHEIN_Official, @Xiaomi, @AliExpress_EN , @Weixin_WeChat and @TikTokSupport over data transfers to China Find all the details here:

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📰 The EU's top court (CJEU) issued a preliminary ruling on Thursday that the frequency of complaints made to data protection authorities under GDPR has no bearing on the validity of the complaint. Euractiv on the CJEU ruling against the Austrian DPA:

👉 Die österreichische Datenschutzbehörde wollte Betroffene von Datenschutzverletzungen daran hindern, mehr als zwei Beschwerden pro Monat einzubringen. ⚖️ Der EuGH hat diesem Beschwerdelimit heute eine Absage erteilt. Alle Informationen gibt es hier:

📰 "Dass bei über 4.000 Verfahren 2023 nur 55 Strafen verhängt wurden, sei ein strukturelles Problem der DSB – dadurch entgehe dem Staat viel Geld, argumentiert die Max-Schrems-NGO noyb." Der ORF zur EuGH-Entscheidung gegen die Datenschutzbehörde:

🚨 The CJEU slammed the Austrian DPA's attempt to arbitrarily set the number of complaints that data subjects can file at a maximum of two per month. This isn't just an Austrian problem though. Our figures show an EU-wide problem with DPA inactivity.

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