The disagreement between privacy activist Max Schrems and the Irish Data Processing Commission (DPC) has evolved into a full-blown row – Schrems vs Facebook now includes Schrems vs the Irish DPC.
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In a significant development, a European privacy campaign group noyb on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is Facebook’s lead regulator in the.
Facebook’s problems with European privacy law could be about to get a whole lot worse. But ahead of what may soon be a major (and long overdue) regulatory showdown over the legality of its surveillance-based business model, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is facing a Facebook-shaped problem of its own: It’s now the subject of […]
Austrian lawyer Max Schrems, has accused the Irish Data Protection Commissioner of putting pressure on his privacy group, nyob, to agree not to disclose documents about the regulators’ investigation into Facebook. The group alleges that the DPC attempted to force the organisation to sign a non-disclosure agreement that would have prevented it publishing or disclosing documents in the case. Schrems and nyob filed a complaint against Facebook in May 2018 to the Austrian data protection regulator, which passed it on to Ireland’s DPC, the lead regulator for Facebook. The DPC published a draft decision in August 2021 which found that Facebook had lawfully changed the basis of its consent to a contract with its users, when GDPR came into force.