A contract for the provision of telecommunications services containing a clause stating that the customer has consented to the collection and retention of a copy of his or her identity document cannot show that he or she has validly given his or her consent when the box expressing such consent has been ticked by the controller prior to the signing of the contract. This is, in substance, the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of Wednesday 11 November in Case...