EU Court of Justice · 10 July 2018
Jehovan todistajat
In plain English
Notes taken by Jehovah's Witnesses during door-to-door preaching are not a purely personal activity. The religious community is a joint controller with its preaching members, even though it never sees the notes.
What the court ruled
a religious community is a controller, jointly with its members who engage in preaching, for the processing of personal data carried out by the latter in the context of door-to-door preaching organised, coordinated and encouraged by that community, without it being necessary that the community has access to those data …
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