Surprising positions on your phone bill
Regrettably this article is only available in German as it contains information which is especially useful to consumers in the German-speaking area. If you have a problem regarding your phone bill and your provider is not forthcoming, you can turn to the national regulation authority RTR (Rundfunk- und Telekom-Regulierungs-GmbH).
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Airbnb has to change its Terms & Conditions on the European market as they don't comply with the current EU law.
By clicking on „accept“, you explicitly consent to transfer data to the USA. Caution: The US does not ensure an comparable adequate level of protection like the EU. Due to surveillance laws such as FISA 702, Youtube (Google Inc) is obliged to hand over your personal data to US authorities. There is no adequacy decision of the European Commission for the transfer of data to the USA. Furthermore, Youtube (Google Inc) cannot offer appropriate safeguards for compliance with an adequate level of protection comparable to that of the EU. Hence, in the US you do not have enforceable data subject rights and effective legal remedies that are equivalent to the level of protection guaranteed within the EU.
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