noyb – European Center for Digital Rights
Good morning,
After 10 year, Meta close my account Instagram,
without giving me reasonable explanations.
Subtracting 3200 images and 1600 contacts
I would like your support in recovering the images and publication history. or force Meta to reopen my account. being at a principle level my own digital identity expressed on the same Meta applications.
Can you support me legally, based on the principles expressed in the European conventions. of the GDPR to recover my DATA and force the META company to restore my virtual identity expressed in the Instagram and Facebook accounts?
Can you support me legally based on the principles expressed in the European conventions. of the GDPR to recover my DATA and force the META company to restore my virtual identity expressed in the Instagram and Facebook accounts? do not hesitate to contact me by any means at your disposal.
D.T.
Kleanthi Sardeli | noyb - Legal Requests
mer 24 lug alle ore 10:49
Dear Davide,
Thank you for your email.
Did Meta provide you with an explanation for their actions?
The GDPR provides all data subjects with the opportunity to ask the controller, in this case Meta, for access to their personal data, according to Article 15 GDPR. According to Article 15(3) you can, also, ask Meta for a copy of your personal data. I would suggest you send an access request to Meta, asking them for a copy of all of your personal data, through this link: https://help.instagram.com/contact/163695614321277?ref=ighc
Meta should, then, answer within a month from the receipt of the request, according to Article 12(3) GDPR. You might be asked for a copy of your ID for authentication reasons.
Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "legal support"? Because what we do is focusing on bigger projects related to GDPR violations by bringing legal action against private entities. Here is one of our last projects focusing on the misuse of personal data for the training of Artificial Intelligence systems: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-urges-11-dpas-immediately-stop-metas-abuse-personal-data-ai
Ultimately, we are not a law firm. Instead we review actions of companies and corporations on the basis of GDPR and hold them accountable for privacy violations and the misuse of personal data.
Thanks again for getting in touch.
Good luck with your access request!
If you like our work, feel free to support us: https://noyb.eu/en/support-us
Davide Tinelli
+39 3479464469
I like your work, I will support you : https://noyb.eu/en/support-us
My complaining about virtual identity and digital identity is about the incredible power social media have in the destiny of information
when suppose neuro science and cognitive science are extension of human knowledge in psychology. In particular, informatics are an enlargement of biological memory and alternative in storage in hard disk and cloud, instagram and facebook aruba, wix, wordpress, ecc. are more and not simply an application or a service, are public expansion of identity, and have to be protecting by low as extention of human rights today like today.
I know the question how Noyb protecting data to be elaborated with I.A. and the question of copy rights, is very important issue. In fact interaction between human intelligence and informatics are very forced.
From my point of view the worst violation is the violation, privatisation or elimination of identity in a world of extended intelligence.
The Bias of Meta have to be considerate systematic distortion of a statistical result.
On the epistemologic level Meta proposed a position that introduces limit in the role of cognitive process in the knowledge building.
In this sense, I ask your help in introduce a philosophical discussion about human destiny.
D.T.
Davide Tinelli
+39 3479464469
Good morning Dear Kleanthi,
in the meantime my Facebook account has also been closed. While I was publishing my research
on instagram data recovery and information about noyb links and activity.
I have no idea how to recover my data.
Can you help me
in this difficult operation ? my account instagram and facebook are not visible anymore.
How I can have access of my data ? in this situation ?
Dear Davide,
Good afternoon.
From what I understand from the screenshot you sent me, you can dispute this decision within 180 days.
Somewhere within the message you received there should probably be a link from which you could contact Facebook directly to "appeal" their decision. You can, also, request access to your personal data via this form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/540977946302970
As far as Instagram is concerned, you could send an access request through the link I sent you in my previous email.
As I said in my previous email Meta should, then, answer within a month from the receipt of the request, according to Article 12(3) GDPR.
Best of luck!
Kind regards,
Kleanthi Sardeli
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Hello,
we scored another victory against Meta at the European Court of Justice! The newest ruling massively restricts the use of personal data for online advertising. Furthermore, it limits the use of publicly available personal data to the purposes for which it was originally published. But more on that later.
Mozilla quietly enabled a supposed “privacy preserving feature” in its Firefox browser. Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behaviour on websites. The problem: Users were never asked if they want to enable this feature. Read more about our complaint below!
CJEU: Meta must "minimise" use of personal data for advertising
Last week Friday, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a ruling against Meta that could have a massive impact on the advertising industry. So what is it all about?
Up until now, Meta has been using all the personal data it has ever collected for advertising purposes. This can go back as far as 2004 and includes data entered by users themselves, by other users, and even data collected through online tracking or tracking on mobile apps.
To prevent such practices, the GDPR established the principle of data minimisation, which limits the processing to strictly necessary data. The problem: Meta and many other players in the online advertising space have so far simply ignored this rule. At least until now.
In its ruling, the CJEU confirmed that the principle of data minimisation applies regardless of the legal basis used for the processing. Even if a user consents to personalised advertising, their personal data cannot be used indefinitely. For Meta, this means that only a small part of its data pool can be used for advertising purposes.
Fun fact on the side: It seems like Meta doesn’t want us to inform our Facebook followers about the ruling. Our post including a link to our blog article was immediately deleted from the platform. We have even received numerous reports that we are not alone in this.
Read all about the case on our website or on ABC News!
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Similar to Google’s (failed) Privacy Sandbox, this turned the browser into a tracking tool for websites. The idea: instead of placing traditional tracking cookies, websites have to ask Firefox to store information about people’s ad interactions in order to receive the bundled data of multiple users.
While this may be less invasive than unlimited tracking, it still interferes with user rights under the GDPR. To make matters worse, Mozilla has turned on its “privacy preserving attribution” by default. Users have not been informed about this move, nor have they been asked for their consent to be tracked by Firefox.
You can find all the information on our website or on Reuters!
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