By Sara Brandstätter ( November 5, 2026, 11:32 GMT | Insight) -- People who lodge complaints with EU privacy watchdogs must, in principle, be granted access under the GDPR to the personal data that those authorities process about them and information about that processing, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday. In a dispute involving a German journalist and Bavaria’s privacy watchdog, the judges rejected a blanket national restriction on access while clarifying that the right doesn’t extend automatically to the entire administrative file.People who lodge complaints with EU privacy watchdogs must, in principle, be given access to the personal data that those authorities process about them, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday, rejecting a blanket restriction under Bavarian law....
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