Region: Austria
Clearview faces multiple GDPR complaints
A group of NGOs has filed coordinated complaints about Clearview AI’s data scraping to regulators in numerous European countries – but enforcement of any regulatory decisions could be tough.
27 May 2021
ECJ to hear new non-material GDPR damage reference
Austria’s Supreme Court has sent key questions about the availability of GDPR non-material damages to the European Court of Justice – months after Germany’s constitutional court ordered a lower court to make a similar EU reference.
13 May 2021
Google data transfers enforcement heats up
Austria’s data protection authority has heard submissions from Google and Max Schrems’s activist group over data transfers to the US – in enforcement that Schrems suggests could be worth billions.
06 May 2021
€18 million GDPR fine overturned
An Austrian court has spiked one of the largest GDPR fines to date, in another sign that European data regulators are struggling to land big penalties.
02 December 2020
Austrian tax law data retention criticised
Regulators and politicians have raised concerns about a new Austrian digital advertising tax law which requires the mass storage of location data.
26 May 2020
Schrems NGO attacks Android
Max Schrems’ NGO has filed an Austrian GDPR complaint against Google’s Android mobile operating system, alleging it fails to gather proper consent from data subjects.
14 May 2020
Jelinek: data protection doesn’t hinder covid-19 fight
Andrea Jelinek, who heads the EDPB and Austria’s data watchdog, tells GDR how the covid-19 crisis has affected the organisation and data protection across Europe.
17 April 2020
Austrian postal service fined for building customer political profiles
In a decision that broadens the definition of what constitutes personal data, Austria’s data protection authority has fined the country’s postal service €18 million for combining its customers’ data to predict their political leanings.
31 October 2019
ECJ: EU content removal rules can apply worldwide
The European Court of Justice has ruled EU courts can order platforms like Facebook to remove content for users worldwide, a week after the same court said that EU law did not explicitly rule out a global right to be forgotten.
03 October 2019
Austrian court to hear complaint against EU passenger record retention
The Austrian data watchdog has rejected a complaint against the EU Passenger Name Record directive, meaning it will now proceed to Austria’s Federal Administrative Court.
30 September 2019