Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts Constitutional Court (Belgio)

Date: 09/22/2022

Subject: The decision of the Constitutional Court, in the matter of personal data protection, annuls several norms enforcing the cooperation agreement between federal and regional authorities with regard to joint data processing within the tracing of people’s contacts (allegedly) affected by COVID-19, in the light of the norms of (EU) Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), of articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and article 8 of the ECHR, and of the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice

Parties: ASBL « Vivant Ostbelgien » et autres et ASBL « Ligue des droits humains »

Original language: Belgian

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

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