EU Court of Justice · 6 November 2003
Lindqvist
In plain English
Mrs Lindqvist put pages on the internet naming people from her parish, with details such as their jobs, hobbies and one person's foot injury. The Court held this was processing of personal data, including health data, but that uploading data to a site hosted in the EU is not in itself a transfer to a non-EU country.
What the court ruled
The act of referring, on an internet page, to various persons and identifying them by name or by other means, for instance by giving their telephone number or information regarding their working conditions and hobbies, constitutes the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automatic means …
There is no transfer [of data] to a third country within the meaning of Article 25 of Directive 95/46 where an individual in a Member State loads personal data onto an internet page which is stored on an internet site … hosted by a natural or legal person who is established in that State or in another Member State …
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