Court of Justice judgment · Case C-582/14

Patrick Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case: C-582/14
Court: Court of Justice
Date of judgment: 19 October 2016
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2016:779
Instrument: Directive 95/46/EC (pre-GDPR; reasoning still applied under the GDPR)
Provisions: Article 4(1), Article 6(1)(f)

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)

A dynamic IP address held by a website operator is personal data where the operator has lawful means to identify the user with additional data held by the internet access provider; national law may not exclude legitimate interest as a basis for such processing in advance.

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

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