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Limits for Abusive GDPR Requests

Data Privacy Law 

In the case at hand, a person living in Austria had signed up for a German optician’s newsletter by entering personal information into the company’s online registration form. Several weeks later, the individual contacted the optician's shop to reques...

BVwG: COVID-19 a Mitigating Circumstance in GDPR Violations

Data Privacy Law 

The Austrian Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht, hereinafter BVwG) has considered the COVID-19 pandemic and the fear of contagion a mitigating factor in penalties imposed for violating applicable data protection regulations. In th...

OGH: Statistically derived probability data constitute personal data

Data calculated via statistical probabilities and merely "attributed" to a person are also personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Upon the plaintiff's request, the defendant provided him with information ab...

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