Judgment of the Court in Case C-300/21 | Österreichische Post (Non-material damage resulting from unlawful processing of data)

Date of article: 04/05/2023

Daily News of: 05/05/2023

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Article language: en

Link: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-05/cp230072en.pdf

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Mere infringement of the GDPR does not give rise to a right to compensation

However, there is no requirement for the non-material damage suffered to reach a certain threshold of seriousness in order to confer a right to compensation

From 2017, Österreichische Post collected information on the political affinities of the Austrian population. Using an algorithm, it defined ‘target group addresses’ according to socio-demographic criteria. The data thus collected enabled Österreichische Post to establish that a given citizen had a high degree of affinity with a certain Austrian political party. However, that data processed were not communicated to third parties. (...)

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