GDPR Article 21 provides a “right to object” whenever personal data are processed based on either Legitimate Interests or Public Interests. In both cases, an individual can highlight “grounds relating to his or her personal situation” and require the data controller to consider whether there remain “compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the […]
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I was invited to contribute to a seminar on the Right to Object (RtO). Normally this GDPR provision is seen as a way to prevent harm to a particular individual because of their special circumstances. But I wondered whether data controllers could also use the RtO process as an opportunity to review whether their processing […]