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SNCF’s gender identity requirement fails ‘legitimate interest’ legal basis under GDPR, EU court opinion says

By Matthew Newman ( July 11, 2024, 10:08 GMT | Insight) -- French national train operator SNCF’s policy of requiring passengers to choose male or female titles when booking a train ticket online doesn’t have a “legitimate interest” to collect customers’ data under the EU’s data protection rules, according to an opinion for the EU's highest court. An advocate general at the EU Court of Justice said that a company's “systematic processing” of data related to customers’ titles can’t be regarded as “necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests” pursued by the company when it hasn’t told users what those interests are.French national train operator SNCF’s policy of requiring passengers to choose male or female titles when booking a train ticket online doesn’t have a “legitimate interest” to collect customers’ data under the EU’s data protection rules, according to an opinion for the EU's highest court (see here)....

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