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👉 According to the privacy group, AliExpress, SHEIN, TikTok and Xiaomi "transfer data to China", while Temu and WeChat mention transfers to "third countries". 🚨 France 24 about our complaints over data transfers to China:

📰 "TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb which claimed the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China." Reuters on our Complaints: https://lnkd.in/gu37vYVK

🚨 Today, we've filed six complaints against the Chinese tech companies Temu, Xiaomi, AliExpress, SHEIN, WeChat and TikTok over data transfers to China. 🇨🇳 While four of them openly admit to sending Europeans’ personal data to China, the other two say that they transfer data to undisclosed “third countries”. As none of the companies responded adequately to the complainants’ access requests, we have to assume that this includes China. But EU law is clear: data transfers outside the EU are only allowed if the destination country doesn’t undermine the protection of data. Given that China is an authoritarian surveillance state, companies can’t realistically shield EU users’ data from access by the Chinese government. After issues around US government access, the rise of Chinese apps opens a new front for EU data protection law. Find all the details here:

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📰 The EU's top court (CJEU) issued a preliminary ruling on Thursday that the frequency of complaints made to data protection authorities under GDPR has no bearing on the validity of the complaint. 👉 Euractiv on the CJEU ruling against the Austrian DPA: https://lnkd.in/dQY468v2

👉 Die österreichische Datenschutzbehörde wollte Betroffene von Datenschutzverletzungen daran hindern, mehr als zwei Beschwerden pro Monat einzubringen. ⚖️ Der EuGH hat diesem Beschwerdelimit heute eine Absage erteilt. Alle Informationen gibt es im Ö1 Mittagsjournal: https://lnkd.in/ddkVtiqN

📰 "Dass bei über 4.000 Verfahren 2023 nur 55 Strafen verhängt wurden, sei ein strukturelles Problem der DSB – dadurch entgehe dem Staat viel Geld, argumentiert die Max-Schrems-NGO noyb." Der ORF zur EuGH-Entscheidung gegen die Datenschutzbehörde:

🚨 The CJEU slammed the Austrian DPA's attempt to arbitrarily set the number of complaints that data subjects can file at a maximum of two per month. This isn't just an Austrian problem though. Our figures show an EU-wide problem with DPA inactivity. https://lnkd.in/dFBrXwxd

Breaking: The EU's top court rules the frequency of complaints made to data protection authorities under GDPR has no bearing on the validity of the complaint.

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