The Austrian data protection authority ordered the YouTube streaming site to respond to the request by an access user to the use of their data, in accordance with European law, according to the organization of Noyb Internet users.
Google, to whom the website belongs, “now has four weeks to comply with the decision,” the NGO said in a statement on Friday.
In 2019, Noyb had filed a complaint in the name of users in Austria against the main streaming broadcasters, including Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime and Spotify, accused in particular of opacity on the recipients of the data marketed.
Noyb regrets that it took “five and a half years to authority to finally render a decision”, especially since Google still has the possibility of appealing.
Neither Google nor the Austrian data protection authority responded to AFP clarification requests.
“Make a request for access should then exercise the right to erasure or rectify” of its data, recalls the association, which “becomes impossible” with such deadlines.
According to Noyb, streaming platforms contravene the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), supposed to protect the rights of Internet users.
Noyb, whose acronym means “None of Your Business” (“It is not your belongings”), is at the origin of around 800 complaints against web giants, which ended with billions of euros in fines.
