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Catholic Church’s appeal against baptismal erasure order lands at top EU court

By Matthew Newman ( December 11, 2024, 17:14 GMT | Insight) -- The EU’s highest court has been asked whether the right to erasure in the EU’s data protection law applies when a person seeks to have a baptismal record deleted by the Catholic Church in Belgium. The case is closely watched because of a rise in "debaptism" requests in Belgium. In addition, it's unclear how the GDPR should be applied in these cases after the Irish privacy watchdog ruled in 2023 that the Catholic Church has a "legitimate interest" in keeping baptismal records. The EU’s highest court has been asked whether the right to erasure in the EU’s data protection law applies when a person seeks to have a baptismal record deleted by the Catholic Church in Belgium....

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