The right to obtain a “copy” of one’s personal data conferred by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implies obtaining a “faithful and intelligible” reproduction of all one’s data, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled in a judgment delivered on Thursday 4 May (C-487/21).
An individual had asked an Austrian agency to provide him with all his personal data, as well as all e-mails and database extracts relating to him, in “a standard technical format”. However,...