Posts tagged #General Data Protection Regulation
All PostsLimits for Abusive GDPR Requests
Data Privacy LawIn 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 LawThe 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...