Tag: Human Right
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ECHR – Bărbulescu v. Romania – Monitoring of an employee’s electronic communications amounted to a breach of his right to private life and correspondence
The case of Bărbulescu v. Romania (application no. 61496/08) concerned the decision of a private company to dismiss an employee after monitoring his electronic communications and accessing their contents, and the alleged failure of the domestic courts to protect his right to respect for his private life and correspondence. In today’s Grand Chamber judgment in…
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Banning the mass publication of personal tax data in Finland did not violate the right to freedom of expression
After two companies had published the personal tax information of 1.2 million people, the domestic authorities ruled that such wholesale publication of personal data had been unlawful under data protection laws, and barred such mass publications in future. The companies complained to the European Court of Human Rights that the ban had violated their right…
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Right to be forgotten – Blocage par nom de domaine ou par géoblocage
La rapporteure publique du Conseil d’Etat a recommandé mercredi 28 juin de consulter la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) sur l’ampleur de l’application du droit à l’oubli par Google, afin d’avoir une position européenne harmonisée. La Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (Cnil) avait infligé une amende à Google lui reprochant de…
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Rubio Dosamantes v. Spain – ECHR – Protection of Reputation
“In the case of Rubio Dosamantes v. Spain (application no. 20996/10) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned a complaint by the pop singer Paulina Rubio that…