Home | About Us | Advanced search | Link Versione Italiana  English version  France version

 Europeanrights.eu

European Observer on fundamental right's respect

  Advanced search

Case Law C-446/21 (04/10/2024)

Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Union' Court of Justice

Date: 10/04/2024

Subject: The Court affirmed that Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) precludes any personal data obtained by a controller, such as the operator of an online social network platform, from the data subject or third parties and collected either on or outside that platform, from being aggregated, analysed and processed for the purposes of targeted advertising without restriction as to time and without distinction as to type of data. According to the Court, the fact that a person has made a statement about his or her sexual orientation on the occasion of a panel discussion open to the public does not authorise the operator of an online social network platform to process other data relating to that person’s sexual orientation, obtained, as the case may be, outside that platform using partner third-party websites and apps, with a view to aggregating and analysing those data, in order to offer that person personalised advertising

Parties: Schrems (Communication de données au grand public)

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

Text download Italian English French