EU Court of Justice · 1 August 2022
OT v Vyriausioji tarnybinės etikos komisija
In plain English
Lithuanian law required online publication of officials' declarations of interests, including names of spouses or partners. The Court held this went too far, and that data which indirectly reveal sensitive facts, such as sexual orientation, are special category data.
What the court ruled
the publication, on the website of the public authority responsible for collecting and checking the content of declarations of private interests, of personal data that are liable to disclose indirectly the sexual orientation of a natural person constitutes processing of special categories of personal data …
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