Max Schrems is an Austrian lawyer, author, and public speaker on data protection issues. Based on his lawsuits against Facebook, the European Court of Justice declared the EU-US data protection agreements “Safe Harbor” and “Privacy Shield” invalid. He is the founder and honorary executive director of noyb, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enforcing EU data protection law. noyb has published and regularly updates an in-depth legal analyses of the proposed Digital Omnibus regarding GDPR and e-privacy changes, with specific focus on potential conflicts with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Institution

noyb

Austria

noyb is a non-profit organisation working to enforce data protection laws, in particular the GDPR. So far noyb has filed more than 800 complaints for wilful privacy violation against companies like Meta, Google and Amazon.