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9 · 2026-08-18

• C-252/21 · Meta Platforms med flera mot Bundeskartellamt2023-07-04

  Court of Justice of the European Union · ECLI:EU:C:2023:537

  Whether a competition authority may examine data protection questions, and on what basis data from third-party sources may be processed.

  GDPR 6 · Paragraphs 104, 126, 154GDPR 9 · Paragraphs 68, 73

• C-300/21 · Österreichische Post2023-05-04

  Court of Justice of the European Union · ECLI:EU:C:2023:370

  Whether an infringement in itself gives a right to compensation, or whether actual damage must be shown.

  GDPR 82 · Paragraphs 32, 42, 50

• [2021] UKSC 50 · Lloyd mot Google LLC2021-11-10

  Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

  Whether damages for a data protection infringement can be awarded uniformly across a class without proof of harm per person.

  GDPR 82 · Paragraphs 138, 139

• [2020] EWCA Civ 1058 · R (Bridges) mot Chief Constable of South Wales Police2020-08-11

  Court of Appeal of England and Wales

  Whether police use of automated facial recognition had a sufficient legal basis and a sufficient impact assessment.

  GDPR 35 · Paragraphs 152, 153

• VI ZR 405/18 · Begäran om förhandsavgörande om rätten till radering2020-07-27

  Federal Court of Justice of Germany

  How the balance between the right to erasure and freedom of expression is struck when a search engine surfaces an article about a named person.

  GDPR 17

• C-311/18 · Data Protection Commissioner mot Facebook Ireland och Schrems2020-07-16

  Court of Justice of the European Union · ECLI:EU:C:2020:559

  Whether an adequacy decision and standard contractual clauses suffice for a transfer of personal data to a third country.

  GDPR 45 · Paragraphs 94, 105GDPR 46 · Paragraphs 121, 133, 134

• C-673/17 · Planet492019-10-01

  Court of Justice of the European Union · ECLI:EU:C:2019:801

  Whether a pre-ticked box can amount to consent to storing cookies on a user's device.

  ePrivacy 5 · Paragraphs 49, 63, 65

• C-40/17 · Fashion ID2019-07-29

  Court of Justice of the European Union · ECLI:EU:C:2019:629

  Whether a site that embeds a third-party button is a joint controller for the collection of the data.

  GDPR 26 · Paragraphs 84, 85

• C-131/12 · Google Spain och Google2014-05-13

  Court of Justice of the European Union · ECLI:EU:C:2014:317

  Whether a search engine must remove results on a person's name when the data are no longer relevant.

  GDPR 17 · Paragraphs 88, 94, 97

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