As a Norwegian company, Runbox is occasionally asked how the U.S. CLOUD Act affects our users—and...
Why We Require a Norwegian Court Order to Disclose User Data
Recent reports reveal that some companies are handing over user data when served with...
EU’s AI Act versus GDPR – are there overlaps and contradictions?
Post updated 31.03.2025 Table of Contents The basicsDifferences in scope, overlaps in...
Navigating Information on the Internet
The internet has transformed how we communicate, access information, and connect with each other,...
Your Data, Your Rights: A Guide to GDPR
Introduced by the European Union (EU) in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...
The FTC’s Report on Big Tech’s Overreach
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a report exposing how Big Tech companies are...
EU’s AI Act: What it is all about
From the perspective of the general public and society as a whole, so-called Artificial...
The Grindr case illustrates how Norwegian authorities fight against misuse of personal information
Oslo District Court has found Grindr’s sharing of personal data illegal as a result of the...
Update: Meta’s behavioural advertising vs GDPR
This is blog post #20 in our series on the GDPR and is a continuation of the blog post # 19 which...
The case of GDPR vs Meta’s illegal behavioral advertising
This is blog post #19 in our series on the GDPR. Runbox takes a clear stand against big tech...
Be privacy concerned when using ChatGPT
This is blog post #18 in our series on the GDPR. “Don’t tell anything to a chatbot you want to...
Privacy, GDPR, and Google Analytics – Revisited
This is blog post #17 in our series on the GDPR. Summary of the case In our blog post on 23...
On the EU-US data transfer problem
This is blog post #16 in our series on the GDPR. At Runbox we are always concerned about data...
Privacy, GDPR, and Google Analytics
This is blog post #15 in our series on the GDPR. Four European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs)...
The Norwegian Consumer Council’s voice is heard worldwide
The Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) has taken a strong position against commercial surveillance...
Out of Control: Apps that share personal data revealed by the Norwegian Consumer Council
“If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product”. This is a common saying when...
The Norwegian COVID-19 contact tracing app is banned by the Data Protection Authority
GDPR in the Wake of COVID Spread: Privacy under Pressure - Part 2 Our previous blog post in this...
GDPR in the Wake of COVID-19: Privacy Under Pressure
Tech companies all over the world are rushing to support health authorities in combating the...
GDPR implementation part 8: “Personal data” in the EU and the US is not the same
We usually think of “personal data” as a term that contains for instance a person’s full name,...
GDPR implementation part 7: Information and Tools for Implementation of Users’ Rights
One of the main objectives for the European Union (EU) when they developed the replacement for the...
GDPR implementation part 6: Access Control and Permissions
In part 3 of this blog series we described how we mapped the “world” of our operations, including...