The Dutch Council of State held that the chief of police is an e-screener controller

The judgment clarifies responsibility for personal data processing in a tool used when examining applications to renew hunting licences. Its importance lies primarily in the fact that the full text of the decision in our database illustrates the boundary between independent and joint controllership, while linking controller status to a statutory task and an actual ability to access the data.


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Wersja polska / Polish version