DSB (Austria) · 24 September 2025
LawyerPrivate person
About: Data subject rights, Unlawful processing
FineNo fineRejected
- Regulator
- DSB (Austria)
- Decided
- 24 September 2025
- Country
- Austria
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- 2025-0.533.437
- Fino case number
- 2025/AT/018
What happened
The DPA held that a lawyer, acting as a data controller, lawfully requested user profile data from an online platform and disclosed it in civil proceedings. The processing was justified, as it served the lawyer’s legitimate interests in representing his client.
Summary from GDPRhub (noyb), written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 4Definitions4(7)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processingRead →
- Art. 15Right of access by the data subjectRead →
- Data subject rights
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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