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GDPR loophole where regulators and courts could disagree on same case is for EU states to sort out, legal opinion says

By Sam Clark ( September 8, 2022, 15:25 GMT | Insight) -- Data protection authorities’ GDPR rulings should not take priority over civil court decisions and vice versa, a legal opinion for the EU’s top court has said. EU Court of Justice advocate general Jean Richard de la Tour said in a non-binding opinion that it's up to individual EU countries to work out procedures to prevent regulators and courts from coming to different conclusions on the same complaint.Neither regulators nor civil courts take automatic precedence in decisions over General Data Protection Regulation complaints, a legal opinion for the EU’s top court has said. Instead, it should be up to national governments to devise mechanisms to avoid potential clashes. ...

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