Court of Justice judgment · Case C-25/17
Proceedings brought by Tietosuojavaltuutettu
- Case
- C-25/17
- Court
- Court of Justice
- Date of judgment
- 10 July 2018
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2018:551
- Instrument
- Directive 95/46/EC (pre-GDPR; reasoning still applied under the GDPR)
- Provisions
- Article 2(2)(c), Article 4(6), Article 4(7), Article 26
Listed under "Related (earlier law or other instruments)": this judgment concerns earlier law or another instrument, not the GDPR alone.
Holding (summary, not the official text)
Notes taken by members of a religious community during door-to-door preaching are not a purely personal activity and can form a filing system; the community can be a controller jointly with its members even without access to the data.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
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