- The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a non-binding opinion.
- The opinion came in reaction to an Austrian case where the national postal service illegally calculated the political affiliation of millions of Austrians in violation of the GDPR.
- In October 2019, the Austrian Data Protection Authority issued an €18 million fine to the Austrian national postal service for violating the GDPR after it had used these personal datasets to offer marketing services to various political parties for advertising.
Privacy activists warn against removing compensation for data protection breaches
