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European Privacy Lawyer, Scourge Of Silicon Valley, Makes Good On Lawsuit Threats

June 5, 2018

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Austrian lawyer Peter Schrems was early on to lax privacy protections by Facebook and has been credited with helping to spur the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Back in March he warned that he already had “ a stack of potential complaints sitting on his desk” and that companies who thought they were going to make money using peoples’ data “are on my target list.” Once the GDPR went into effect, he wasted no time. Within hours he had filed multi-billion dollar lawsuits against Google, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, for what he maintains are sham consent protocols on their sites.

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