Lindqvist Judgement
A case in which the European Court of Justice ruled that a woman who identified and included information about fellow church volunteers on her website was in breach of the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. The ECJ held that the creation of a personal website was not a personal activity allowing the woman to be exempted from the data protection rules. Some observers wonder whether Recital 18 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which says the law does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity, might affect this precedential ruling. Recital 18 says personal or household activities could include correspondence and the holding of addresses, or social networking and online activity undertaken within the context of such activities.
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