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AI Summary: >-
  Date of the Decision: December 16, 2008Authority: Court of Justice of the
  European Union (CJUE)Summary of the Facts: The case concerned the collection
  and publication of personal data related to individuals' income and assets
  from public documents held by a tax administration. The activities included
  processing this data for publication in a detailed list format, making it
  available for commercial purposes, and offering it through SMS
  services.Rationale of the Decision: The Court determined that the processing
  of personal data in this manner fell within the scope of the Data Protection
  Directive 95/46/EC, which protects individual privacy and personal
  data.Grounds for the Decision: The activities described breached the
  provisions of the Data Protection Directive, specifically concerning the
  lawful processing of personal data, as individuals were not adequately
  informed about the use of their data, nor did they provide consent for such
  processing.Fines: The decision imposed fines for each breach of the directive,
  with specific amounts detailed in the judgment, although the exact figures are
  not stated in the provided text. The aggregated amount of the fines was also
  determined, but again, the specific total is not included in the information
  provided.
Text: >-
  - Data processing- Personal data- Public documents- Tax administration- Income
  and capital information- Privacy concerns- Commercial use of data- SMS
  service- Directive 95/46/CE- Breach of privacy
visibility: public
Case Number: C-73/07
date: null
ECLI Code: null
Link to decision: null
Language:
  - French
Geography:
  - '[[France]]'
Judicial Authority: null
Summary: null
NoteType: Case Law
aliases:
  - C-73-07
  - Satakunnan Markkinapörssi and Satamedia
  - C-73/07
tags: null
Montant (€): null
icon: "\U0001F528"
Citation: null
AI Helper: null
Cited in: null
title: CJEU - C-73-07 - Satakunnan Markkinapörssi et Satamedia
modified: null
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> [Note to Claude AI - adapt this section when running the AI Case Law analytics. Notably when the decision is in French, draft the Executive Summary in French. Otherwise, proceed in English]
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### Collecte, publication, cession ou traitement dans un service de SMS des documents publics d’une administration fiscale contenant des données relatives aux revenus du travail et du capital et au patrimoine de personne physiques – Inclusion

Constitue un traitement de données à caractère personnel relevant du champ de la directive 95/46/CE du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 24 octobre 1995 l’activité consistant à :

collecter dans les documents publics de l’administration fiscale des données relatives aux revenus du travail et du capital ainsi qu’au patrimoine de personnes physiques et à les traiter en vue de leur publication, y compris lorsque ces documents ne contiennent que des informations préalablement publiées dans les médias,

les publier dans l’ordre alphabétique et par classe de revenus, sous la forme de listes détaillées établies commune par commune,

les céder sous la forme de disques CD-ROM, pour qu’elles soient utilisées à des fins commerciales,

les traiter dans un service de SMS qui permet aux utilisateurs de téléphones mobiles, en envoyant le nom et la commune de résidence d’une personne, de recevoir des informations concernant les revenus du travail et du capital ainsi que le patrimoine de cette personne.