EU Court of Justice · 16 December 2008
Huber
In plain English
Germany's central register of foreign EU citizens was lawful only if it held just the data needed to apply residence law. Keeping named records for statistics was not necessary, and a crime-fighting database only for non-German EU citizens was discriminatory.
What the court ruled
The storage and processing of personal data containing individualised personal information in a register such as the Central Register of Foreign Nationals for statistical purposes cannot, on any basis, be considered to be necessary within the meaning of Article 7(e) of Directive 95/46.
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