Five years later sounds like a half-baked sequel to a well-known zombie flick franchise. But it’s a reference to how long it’s taken a data access complaint against Netflix to deliver a penalty decision in the European Union.
The fine that’s — finally — been issued under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is for €4.75 million ($5 million at current exchange rates). Netflix, meanwhile, raked in around $33.7 billion in annual revenue in 2023 alone.
noyb, the privacy rights non-profit behind the Netflix complaint, filed multiple complaints simultaneously, targeting other streaming platforms over data access issues, including Amazon Prime, Apple Music, and YouTube — most of which remain undecided.
“Almost all complaints are still pending, except for Flimmit in Austria and for Spotify where we won last year after taking the DPA to court for inactivity,” noyb told us. “Apart from that, our case against Apple Music is moving forward in Ireland and we took the Luxembourg DPA to court for inactivity (Amazon).”
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