Court of Justice judgment · Case C-687/21
BL v MediaMarktSaturn Hagen-Iserlohn GmbH
- Case
- C-687/21
- Court
- Court of Justice
- Date of judgment
- 25 January 2024
- ECLI
- ECLI:EU:C:2024:72
- Instrument
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)
- Provisions
- Article 5, Article 24, Article 32, Article 82
Holding (summary, not the official text)
Staff mistakenly handing a document to the wrong person does not by itself show inadequate security measures; compensation is compensatory only; where the wrong recipient demonstrably did not read the data, a purely hypothetical risk of misuse is not damage.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
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