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Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems filed several multi-billion euro complaints in courts around Europe against Google (Android), Facebook, and two Facebook subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram Friday—the same day as EU data protection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , went into effect. Combined, the lawsuits seek to fine a total 6.7 billion [...]