An Austrian association that fights for the protection of privacy filed a complaint on Thursday, September 14 in France against three mobile applications accused of illegal use of personal data of Internet users, including those of Fnac and SeLoger.
As soon as we open them, they start “collecting and sharing data with third parties,” said the NGO Noyb (for “None of your business”) in a press release.
Users, he continues, “do not even have the option to approve or prevent this exchange”, the objective of which is to establish their profile to personalize advertising and, therefore, increase the income of interested companies.
A call to delete collected data
Noyb, whose founder Max Schrems has become a well-known figure in the world of technology, has initiated proceedings against the cultural store chain Fnac, the real estate advertising site SeLoger and MyFitnessPal, a subsidiary of the American sports equipment manufacturer Under Armour.
The Viennese association asks the CNIL, the guardian of French personal data, to order “the deletion of all data processed illegally.”
“Given the seriousness of the accusations and the large number of people potentially affected,” Noyb also calls for a fine to be imposed on the three companies.
This issue is also one of the priorities of the CNIL, which launched a public consultation in July, pointing out that “the use of these applications makes it possible to process large amounts of personal data that do not exist or barely exist on fixed terminals (geolocation, access to a contact book, etc.)”.
Source: BFM TV
