Austrian privacy group noyb has filed a complaint with the French data protection authority (DPA), the CNIL, against Google for ignoring a European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling relating to direct marketing emails. The complaint alleges Google uses its email platform Gmail to send unsolicited advertising emails without obtaining user consent. Romain Robert, a lawyer at noyb explained: "It is quite simple. Spam is a commercial email sent without consent. And it is illegal. Spam does not become legal just because it is generated by the email provider."
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