# Newspaper: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

- Type: Enforcement
- Source: Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner
- Date: 2019-01-01
- Original: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-11
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/46126
- Topics: Processing, Telecommunications, Law Enforcement

## Summary

The publication of the newspaper, both in hard copy and in electronic form, allegedly involved inconvenience, unnecessary and unlawful detention of a citizen, and revealed the names and pictures of the two police investigators involved, as well as the photograph of a third police investigator. The Commissioner considered that the aim could be achieved by referring only to the initials of their name and/or their faces being blurred and/or publishing photographs drawn from a distant distance so th

## Full text

The publication of the newspaper, both in hard copy and in electronic form, allegedly involved inconvenience, unnecessary and unlawful detention of a citizen, and revealed the names and pictures of the two police investigators involved, as well as the photograph of a third police investigator. The Commissioner considered that the aim could be achieved by referring only to the initials of their name and/or their faces being blurred and/or publishing photographs drawn from a distant distance so that it was impossible to identify the persons, and these actions would not bring any change in the nature of the case.

GDPR Articles: Art. 6 GDPR
Industry: Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting

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