EU Court of Justice · 4 May 2023
F.F. v Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde (the copy)
In plain English
The right to a copy of one's data means a faithful and understandable reproduction of all of it. This can include copies of extracts from documents, or whole documents, where that is essential to exercise GDPR rights.
What the court ruled
the right to obtain from the controller a copy of the personal data undergoing processing means that the data subject must be given a faithful and intelligible reproduction of all those data.
Related
The official text is quoted word for word from the English version of the source named under it; only the version published in the court’s own records is authoritative. The plain-English line is Fino’s own summary, not legal advice.