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Question of how GDPR defines ‘non-material damage’ reaches EU’s top court after German referral

By Matthew Newman
  • 04 Aug 2022 16:28
  • 04 Aug 2022 16:23
EU judges will consider how "non-material damage" is defined for the purposes of a claim for compensation over a General Data Protection Regulation violation after a German court asked for guidance.  
The Regional Court of Ravensburg has asked the EU Court of Justice whether the concept of "non-material damage" in

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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