Advocate General Greenlights GDPR Collective Claims Without a Mandate
On December 2, 2021, the Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that consumer protection associations may bring collective claims without a mandate for violations of the GDPR relying on national consumer law provisions.
The words “without a mandate” mean that the organization is not representing a particular consumer or group of consumers, rather, it is representing the collective interests of those whose personal data have been processed in a manner contrary to the GDPR without identifying particular individuals.
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