Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 11/25/2021

Subject: According to the Court, the display in the electronic inbox of advertising messages in a form similar to that of a real email constitutes use of electronic mail for the purposes of direct marketing within the meaning of Directive 2002/58. Those messages give rise to a likelihood of confusion that could lead a user who clicks on the link corresponding to the advertising message to be redirected, against his or her will, to an internet site displaying that advertisement

Parties: StWL Städtische Werke Lauf a.d. Pegnitz

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Communications - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent

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