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️ "‘Pay or Okay’ is keeping courts busy in various European countries. In Austria, the Federal Administrative Court has now ruled on the case of the newspaper Der Standard – and is demanding significant improvements." (from German)
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Read more: https://www.heise.de/news/Zahlen-oder-Tracken-Lassen-Naechster-Trippelschritt-zum-EuGH-10549731.html
noyb.eu📰 Article on our case against #DerStandard 💬
with quote from Max Schrems: "'Pay or OK' undermines a core pillar of the #GDPR: freely given consent. Instead of a genuine choice of users, we get a North Korean consent rate of 99.9% with this system."
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https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/08/19/austrian-newspapers-pay-or-consent-model-violates-eu-privacy-rules-court
noyb.eu📰 "[noyb] has been campaigning against 'Pay or OK' cookie banners such as those used by ‘Der Standard’ for several years. It now feels validated in its criticism by a recent ruling of the Federal Administrative Court (BVwG)." (from German)
👉 Read more: https://www.diepresse.com/20011600/rechtsstreit-um-digitalabo-modell-des-standard
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The Austrian Federal Administrative Court (BVwG) just confirmed that "Der Standard" - a newspaper based in Vienna, Austria - violated the GDPR when introducing "Pay or Okay".
👉 Read more about the case here: https://noyb.eu/en/court-decides-pay-or-okay-derstandardat-illegal
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The Gallup Institute conducted a study among 1,000 #Meta users in Germany. The results are clear: Only 7% actually want their #Facebook and #Instagram data to be used by Meta for #AI training.
👀 Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai
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Unser ehrenamtlicher Vorsitzender @maxschrems@mastodon.social war gestern zu Gast im ZDF heute Journal, um u.a. über die mangelnden Durchsetzung von EU-Recht zu sprechen.
@noybeu@mastodon.social arbeitet tagtäglich für eine gerechtere Zukunft. Unterstütze uns dabei, die dafür notwendigen Gerichtskosten zu stämmen! 👉 noyb.eu/en/support
https://www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-journal/sgs-slomka-schrems-100.html
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#Meta's enthusiasm for training its #AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves […] according a study commissioned by #Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group #Noyb.
👀 Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/
noyb.eu📰 noyb commissioned Gallup to survey Meta users about their attitudes toward AI training data usage. The survey exposes significant problems with Meta's notification strategy, which forms a cornerstone of the company's legitimate interest argument.
👉 https://ppc.land/only-7-want-meta-to-use-their-data-for-ai-finds-survey/
noyb.eu📰 Anstatt um eine Einwilligung zu bitten und gegebenenfalls ein „Nein“ als Antwort zu erhalten, stelle #Meta seine wirtschaftlichen Interessen über das Recht auf #Datenschutz von mindestens 274 Millionen EU-Nutzer:innen.
Lies mehr 👉 https://taz.de/Kuenstliche-Intelligenz-bei-Meta/!6105777/