Posts tagged #data processing
All PostsOGH on Data Protection at Work
Data Privacy LawThe Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) has examined whether an employer’s inspection of former employees’ emails is in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under Article 4(1) of the GDPR, any informatio...
BVwG: No Obligation to Delete Minutes of ÖH Meetings
DatenschutzrechtThe Austrian Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, hereinafter BVwG) has ruled that no right exists to the erasure of personal data from the minutes of meetings of a public body (in this case, the Austrian National Students Union, Ö...
DE: Schufa - Data processing after termination of insolvency proceedings
Civil LawThe German Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht, OLG) of Schleswig-Holstein ruled: Schufa is allowed to process the data of an insolvency debtor for a maximum of six months after the insolvency proceedings have been cancelled. In March 2020, the ...
OGH: Members of a cooperative have right of inspection under the GDPR
Civil LawArticle 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulates the facts that justify the processing of data, whereby several standards of permission exist side by side. All facts are equivalent and consent does not necessarily have to be fulfi...
OGH: Data processing in a teacher evaluation app is permissible after all
Öffentliches RechtIn this case, the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) examined the question of prohibiting the processing of personal data in the course of evaluations of a teacher. The plaintiff is a teacher at an HTL (a Higher Technical Education In...