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• C-203/22Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-27

  CK v Magistrat der Stadt Wien

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 15(1)(h) – Automated decision-making, including profiling – Scoring – Assessment of the creditworthiness of a natural person – Access to meaningful information about the logic involved in profiling – Verification of the accuracy of the information provided – Directive (EU) 2016/943 – Point 1 of Article 2 – Trade secret – Personal data of third parties.

• C-461/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-07-11

  MK v WB

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 2(2)(c) – Scope – Exclusion – Purely personal or household activity – Article 4(7) – Controller – Former guardian who performed his or her duties in a professional capacity – Article 15 – Access of the person who has been placed under legal guardianship to data collected by that former guardian during the performance of his or her duties.

• C-740/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-03-07

  Endemol Shine Finland Oy

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Articles 2, 4, 6, 10 and 86 – Data held by a court relating to the criminal convictions of a natural person – Oral disclosure of such data to a commercial company on account of a competition organised by that company – Concept of ‘processing of personal data’ – National legislation governing access to those data – Reconciliation between the right of public access to official documents and the protection of personal data.

• C-33/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-01-16

  Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde v WK

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data – Article 16 TFEU – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 2(2)(a) – Scope – Exclusions – Activities which fall outside the scope of Union law – Article 4(2) TEU – Activities concerning national security – Committee of inquiry set up by the parliament of a Member State – Article 23(1)(a) and (h), Articles 51 and 55 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Competence of the supervisory authority responsible for data protection – Article 77 – Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority – Direct effect.