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👉 "NOYB has asked Pinterest to erase the data processed for personalised ads and to inform recipients of the erasure. It also suggests that CNIL imposes a penalty to prevent similar violations in future." 📰 Euronews on our complaint against Pinterest: https://lnkd.in/e7WUQUDH

📰 "Pinterest is relying upon a legal basis for processing people’s data for ad targeting that’s known as legitimate interest (LI). However, noyb argues this use is non-compliant with the GDPR." 👉 TechCrunch on our complaint against Pinterest:

🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against Pinterest. ▶ The platform enables ad tracking by default and without ever asking for consent. 👉 Most users probably know it as a visual mood board and use it to find ideas and inspiration. Advertisers, on the other hand, use the platform to push their products on consumers. ⁉ Unsurprisingly, Pinterest’s business model is also based on personalised advertising and the associated user tracking. The problem: Despite a CJEU ruling prohibiting this practice, the platform uses people’s personal data without asking for their consent. Pinterest falsely claims to have a “legitimate interest” and enables tracking by default. 📱 The complainant only found out about Pinterest’s ad tracking by chance. After using the platform for some time, she checked the “privacy and data” settings and found out that the “ads personalisation” was turned on by default. According to these settings, Pinterest uses information from visited websites and from other third parties to show users personalised ads. In addition, Pinterest tracks on-site activity “to improve the ads about Pinterest you’re shown on other sites or apps.” ⚖ This practice is clearly unlawful since the introduction of the GDPR in 2018. In its ruling in case C252/21 Bundeskartellamt in 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found again that personalised advertising cannot be based on legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. 📝 To find out more about the personal data processed by Pinterest, the complainant also filed an access request. She received a copy of her data on the same day, but quickly realised that it didn’t include any information about the recipients of her data. ❌ Even after two additional requests, Pinterest failed to provide details about the categories of data that were shared with third parties. In other words: Pinterest failed to adequately respond to the access request under Article 15(1)(c) GDPR.

🎉 noyb WIN! RTL Belgium was ordered to add a "refuse all" button to the first layer of its cookie banner and stop using deceptive colors. In case of non-compliance, the company will have to pay €40.000 per day. 👉 DPA decision (FR): https://lnkd.in/dgri_2QS 👉 Our original complaints: https://lnkd.in/eYeTmVF7

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In July 2024, noyb filed a complaint against Ryanair because they force a part of its customers to go through a “verification process” involving invasive facial recognition. The DPC has now opened an inquiry based on our complaints. More info on the intial complaint: https://lnkd.in/eMer8K_E

#FunFact: Meta has decided that our posting on them violating the #GDPR would violate their "community standards" and deleted our posting about todays ruling on facebook...

#FunFact: Meta has decided that our posting on them violating the #GDPR would violate their "community standards" and deleted our posting about todays ruling on facebook...

BREAKING: Court of Justice Ruling out now! First Statement on our next win against Meta / Facebook before the CJEU, where Katharina Raabe-Stuppnig has represented us. Meta must now "minimize" the data they use for online advertisement and may also not use sensitive data. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dvdG5ufr