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NOYB, a European data protection organization, is preparing a lawsuit against Schufa, Germany's largest credit agency, over its practice of storing outdated consumer data in a so-called shadow database for up to 10 years without proper disclosure. The organization plans both an injunction and a collective damages claim on behalf of potentially 68 million affected Germans whose GDPR right to information was violated.
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NOYB, a European data protection organization, is preparing a lawsuit against Schufa, Germany's largest credit agency, over its practice of storing outdated consumer data in a so-called shadow database for up to 10 years without proper disclosure. The organization plans both an injunction and a collective damages claim on behalf of potentially 68 million affected Germans whose GDPR right to information was violated.
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schufa · data-privacy · shadow-database · consumer-lawsuit · gdpr · noyb · germany
Key entities
NOYB (organization, 0.99) · Schufa (organization, 0.99) · Marco Blocher (person, 0.95) · Peter Hornung (person, 0.85) · Schattendatenbank (Shadow Database) (concept, 0.98) · GDPR (European Data Protection Regulation) (concept, 0.99) · Germany (location, 0.99) · Vienna (location, 0.9) · Hesse (location, 0.85) · Collective Consumer Lawsuit (event, 0.95)
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claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 26 Aug 2026

