Swedish data brokers claim journalists’ legal protection to evade the GDPR

https://noyb.eu/en/swedish-data-brokers-claim-journalists-legal-protection-evade-eu-law

Thanks to a loophole in Swedish national law, large data brokers like MrKoll can simply obtain a “media licence”, exempting their entire business from all obligations under the EU’s strict privacy laws.

Article 85 of the GDPR allows member states to limit the application of some elements of the GDPR in the area of journalism (to e.g. protect sources or undercover investigations), Sweden took a brute force approach to this exception. Swedish national legislation makes it extremely easy to …

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