European Court of Human Rights, case law compendium on data protection

The compendium, compiled under the auspices of the Court itself, collects the most relevant decisions concerning personal data protection.

It mentions the case law listed below with regard to the following topics (updated as of December 5,  2015):

GPS data

  • GPS data Uzun v. Germany, 2 September 2010
  • Ben Faiza v. France (no. 31446/12); pending as of 3 February 2015

Health data

  • H. v. Latvia (no. 52019/07), 29 April 2014

Interception of communications and phone tapping

  • Klass and Others v. Germany, 6 September 1978
  • Malone v. the United Kingdom, 2 August 1984
  • Kruslin v. France, 24 April 1990
  • Kopp v. Switzerland, 25 March 1998
  • Amann v. Switzerland, 16 February 2000 (Grand Chamber)
  • Taylor-Sabori v. the United Kingdom, 22 October 2002
  • Wisse v. France, 22 December 2005
  • Kennedy v. the United Kingdom, 18 May 2010
  • Dragojević v. Croatia, 15 January 2015
  • R.E. v. the United Kingdom (no. 62498/11), 27 October 2015
  • Roman Zakharov v. Russia, 4 December 2015
  • Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom (no. 58170/13), Pending application communicated to the UK Government on 9 January 2014
  • Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Alice Ross v. the United Kingdom (no. 62322/14), pending application communicated to the UK Government on 5 January 2015
  • 10 Human Rights Organisations and Others v. the United Kingdom, pending application communicated to the UK Government on 24 November 2015

Voice samples

  • P.G. and J.H. v. the United Kingdom (application no. 44787/98), 25 September 2001
  • Vetter v. France, 31 May 2005

Video surveillance

  • Peck v. the United Kingdom, 28 January 2003
  • Köpke v. Germany, 5 October 2010 (decision on the admissibility)
  • Antović and Mirković v. Montenegro (no. 70838/13), pending application communicated to the Montenegrin Government on 3 December 2014

Storage and use of personal data

In the context of police and criminal justice

  • Perry v. the United Kingdom, 17 July 2003
  • Marper v. the United Kingdom, 4 December 2008 (Grand Chamber)
  • B.B. v. France (no. 5335/06), Gardel v. France and M.B. v. France (no. 22115/06), 17 December 2009
  • Uzun v. Germany, 2 September 2010
  • Dimitrov-Kazakov v. Bulgaria, 10 February 2011
  • Shimovolos v. Russia, 21 June 2011
  • Khelili v. Switzerland, 18 October 2011
  • M.M. v. the United Kingdom (no. 24029/07), 13 November 2012
  • M.K. v. France (no. 19522/09), 18 April 2013
  • Peruzzo and Martens v. Germany, 4 June 2013 (decision on the admissibility)
  • Brunet v. France, 18 September 2014
  • Tretter and Others v. Austria (no. 3599/10), pending application communicated to the Austrian Government on 6 May 2013
  • Dagregorio and Mosconi v. France (no. 65714/11) and Aycaguer v. France (no. 8806/12), pending applications communicated to the French Government on 26 March 2014
  • López Ribalda v. Spain (no. 1874/13) and Gancedo Giménez and Others v. Spain (no. 8567/13), pending applications communicated to the Spanish Government on 17 February 2015

Personal data concerning health

  • Chave née Jullien v. France 9 July 1991 (decision of the European Commission of Human Rights)
  • L.L. v. France (no. 7508/02), 10 October 2006

Personal data stored in secret registers

  • Leander v. Sweden, 23 March 1987
  • Rotaru v. Romania, 4 May 2000 (Grand Chamber)

Disclosure of personal data

  • Z. v. Finland (no. 22009/93), 25 February 1997
  • M.S. v. Sweden (no. 20837/92), 27 August 1997
  • Peck v. the United Kingdom, 28 January 2003
  • Panteleyenko v. Ukraine, 29 June 2006
  • Armonas v. Lithuania and Biriuk v. Lithuania, 25 November 2008
  • Avilkina and Others v. Russia, 6 June 2013
  • Sõro v. Estonia, 3 September 2015

Access to personal data

  • Gaskin v. the United Kingdom, 7 July 1989
  • Odièvre v. France, 13 February 2003 (Grand Chamber)
  • Roche v. the United Kingdom, 19 October 2005 (Grand Chamber)
  • Segerstedt-Wiberg and Others v. Sweden, 6 June 2006
  • K.H. and Others v. Slovakia (application no. 32881/04), 28 April 2009
  • Haralambie v. Romania, 27 October 2009
  • Godelli v. Italy, 25 September 2012

 

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