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30 Sep 2021

Facebook’s Ray-Ban Stories cause privacy concerns in Europe

Facebook teamed up with Ray-Ban to create Ray-Ban Stories, new smart glasses.  The product, which will initially be only available in stores in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, the UK and the US, is already facing severe scrutiny over privacy concerns.  So, how are different privacy watchdogs taking the development of these spectacles? Did Facebook take any steps to respond to privacy concerns? And finally, could the smart glasses come under the radar of privacy watchdogs in the Western Balkans?   What are Facebook’s Ray-Ban smart glasses? Smart glasses are not a new technological development.  The concept has been around for […]

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23 Jan 2019

YouTube, Netflix and Others Accused of GDPR Violations

Friday is widely regarded as a day marked by joy and happiness. However, last Friday did not produce such emotions for data protection officers working in the online streaming services (“OSS”) industry, that is in Amazon, Apple, DAZN, Flimmit, Netflix, SoundCloud, Spotify and Youtube. Namely, the Austrian campaign group None of Your Business (“NOYB”) filed 10 complaints with the Austrian Data Protection Authority and asked for an investigation of an alleged breach of Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). NOYB accused OSS for violating the “Right to access by the data subjects” (which provides that the data […]

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