The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has clarified in Brillen Rottler (C-526/24) that, in exceptional circumstances, even a first data subject access request (DSAR) may be refused as “manifestly unfounded or excessive” under Article 12 para. 5 GDPR. This is an important development. However, the judgment should not be misunderstood. The Court […]
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The Weaponization of Data Protection
As data protection professionals, we see the value of strong individual rights under the GDPR. The right to access, rectify, and erase one’s personal data is foundational to the regulation’s spirit of informational self-determination. But there’s also a negative side to this that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore: the weaponization of data protection rights […]