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title: "Case C-673/17: judgment of 1 October 2019"
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Court of Justice judgment · Case C-673/17

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[Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/about#review)

- **Case:** C-673/17
- **Court:** Court of Justice
- **Date of judgment:** 1 October 2019
- **ECLI:** ECLI:EU:C:2019:801
- **Instrument:** GDPR together with the ePrivacy Directive (Art. 5(3))
- **Provisions:** [Article 4(11)](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/article/4#4-11), [Article 6(1)(a)](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/article/6#1-a), [Article 7](https://dposchool.com/gdpr/article/7)

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)

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## Official source

- [Case C-673/17 on CURIA](https://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-673/17&language=en)
- [Judgment on EUR-Lex (CELEX 62017CJ0673)](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62017CJ0673)

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

Only the judgment as published by the Court of Justice is authoritative. This is reference material, not legal advice.

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