This should not come as a surprise to anyone, but it needed a decision by the Austrian data protection authority nonetheless:
Data brokers have to provide proper information when they scrape someone's data from a company register. They cannot claim to have done so by having a privacy notice on their website. Neither does the exemption for situations in which information would require unreasonable effort apply to them.
From a case recently won by yours truly.
--
#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR
Raphael Albert
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2026-05-29 21:56:51 UTC
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