Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs

What happened

The HDPA of Greece examined the complaint for the violation of GDPR against the Greek Ministry of Education and Religion of a parent who had filed a request in order for their son to be exempted from the participation in the religious education course and generally from any religious activity at their high school, due to religious conscience related reasons. The parent's request was rejected and they had to provide the school with an additional form underlining the fact that their son was not Orthodox Christian, but their request was again rejected this time as overdue. Τhe parent's additional request for the school to erase their son's personal data pertaining to his religious beliefs was also rejected, while the complainant also complained about the issue of the inscription on school leaving certificates of the conduct of the respective student.

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Rules involved

• Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data5(1)Read →
• Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal dataRead →

• Data principles
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