Amsterdam Court of Appeal held that trade secrets do not exclude the right of access

The full text of the decision in our Judykatura database demonstrates that the right of access under Article 15 GDPR does not automatically give way to an argument based on the confidentiality of a platform’s mechanisms. In its decision of 14 April 2026, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal ordered platform X to provide a user with an almost complete record of internal actions relating to his account.


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