Max Schrems

Founder

NOYB

Max Schrems

Founder

NOYB

Max Schrems is an Austrian activist, lawyer, and author who is widely known for his campaigns against Facebook for its privacy infringements, including violations of European privacy laws and the alleged transmission of personal data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the NSA’s PRISM program. Schrems is the founder of None of Your Business (NOYB), a European non-profit organization that focuses on privacy issue and privacy violations in the private sector. NOYB initiatives support the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Regulation, and information privacy in general.

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