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Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over “forced consent”

Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over “forced consent”

6 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/25/facebook-google-face-first-gdpr-complaints-over-forced-consent/

After two years coming down the pipe at tech giants, Europe’s new privacy framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is now being applied — and long time Facebook privacy critic, Max Schrems, has wasted no time in filing four complaints relating to (certain) companies’ ‘take it or leave it’ stance when it comes to consent.

The complaints have been filed on behalf of (unnamed) individual users — with one filed against Facebook; one against Facebook-owned Instagram; one against Facebook-owned WhatsApp; and one against Google’s Android.