Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Spain) - Tribunal Constitucional

Date: 03/23/2009

Subject: The Constitutional Court, also analyzing the Court of Strasbourg’s jurisprudence, has established the violation of the claimant’s right to privacy as a consequence of the public administrative authority’s use of personal information of medical nature to pension him off for permanent incapacity.

Parties: José Alvarez Rocha

Original language: Spanish

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access - Personal data: rectification - Personal data: independent authority

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