The complexity of the regulations of european privacy, GDPR, has received one victim to the next: the European Union. This is not a joke: on the 8th of January, the General Court of the European Union, ordered the European Commission to compensate for a German national, for the preparation of the unauthorized, to personal information. Reuters and other media of news on the internet reported it.
The EU, against the EU, When the GDPR hits institutions
GDPR is a regulation that has a few years on the force in Europe, and designed to ensure the protection of personal data of european citizens. In particular, it was established in order to limit the sharing of personal information with other countries, especially the united states, which are based on the giants of the social media as well as the Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Google+, X -, and many, many more.
But what happened exactly? The facts date back to the years 2021 and 2022, and the related conferences GoGreen of the courses in this period of time, and to be published by a website, the institutional and the EU. Inside of this site it became possible to register for the events by the use of the classic “Log in with Facebook”.
The lawsuit was initiated by a German national, Thomas Bindl, that he chose this method in order to be registered for the event, and then sued the EU in breach of the GDPR: to access via Facebook, in fact, the personal information of the citizens, including the IP address and the other information. in connection with the browser used, they were to be transferred to third parties outside of the EU, and residents in the united states. In particular, those third parties were two of the company's u.s.: a Meta-and AWS.
According to Bindl, this is a violation and potentially allow an agency of the intelligence the u.s. aksesonin of the details of his own, and for that reason he has decided to lead the european union in a court of law. The thing that bore witness to the truth, and shall prove, that it shall be the compensation of 400 euros for damages, material, and 800 € for the other, for the offences alleged to be of his / her right of access to information.
Interestingly, neither AWS nor Spot is not responsible for it. In the case of AWS, because the data are always passed through the servers of the company is to be physically located in Germany, and for this reason they are gone, never, never, from the borders of the european union, and in all but one case only, of which, however, was due to a mistake from the very Bindl.
In the case of the Metës, however, it is not a mistake, the company, according to the Court of the European Commission, in the matter of fact, the choice to enter the entrance through Facebook's, was the choice of the EU, which at the time (march 2022) had not made a decision yet clear as to the appropriateness of the standards of protection of personal data adopted by the united states.
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