Court of Justice judgment · Case C-492/23
X v Russmedia Digital SRL and Inform Media Press SRL
- Case
- C-492/23
- Court
- Court of Justice
- Date of judgment
- 2 December 2025
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2025:935
- Instrument
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)
- Provisions
- Article 4(7), Article 5(2), Article 9, Article 24, Article 25, Article 26, Article 32, Article 2(4)
Holding (summary, not the official text)
An online marketplace operator is a controller of personal data in ads published on its site; before publication it must identify ads with sensitive data, check the advertiser is the person concerned or has explicit consent, take security measures against copying, and cannot rely on the hosting exemptions of the e-Commerce Directive for these GDPR duties.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
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