The Spanish Court upheld a fine against a trade union for publishing signatures

Publishing minutes of meetings of representative bodies does not justify disclosing the handwritten signatures of those attending them. The full text of the judgment in the Judykatura database presents a case in which the limits of data minimisation were defined by the possibility of replacing signatures with a simple note confirming that the document had been signed. The Spanish Court held that even a restricted group of recipients, through a trade union noticeboard and a private messaging group, did not make that disclosure necessary.


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Wersja polska / Polish version