Case law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the protection of Personal Data

The Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe (dataprotection@coe.int) compiled a list of case law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning the protection of personal data.

The document includes 110 cases, indexed by date (1978-April 2018) and by theme as follows:

  • Access to Personal Data
  • Balancing Data Protection with Freedom of Expression and the Right to Information
  • Consent of the Data Subject
  • Correspondence
  • DNA Database
  • GPS Data
  • Health Data
  • Identity
  • Information Concerning Professional Activities
  • Interception of Communications
  • Photos
  • Private life at work
  • Processing of Personal Data by the Police
  • Surveillance Methods
  • Video Surveillance

Link to the document:

The Court's judgments are accessible on its Internet site https://www.echr.coe.int .