CJEU Buivids: Storing video on continuous recording device and loading data onto webpage
Processing: A video recording of persons which is stored on a continuous recording device — the hard disk drive of that system — constitutes automatic processing of personal data (see, Ryneš).
Original title: SERGEJS BUIVIDS v. THE AUGSTĀKĀ TIESA
Judgment
(¶34). Also, loading personal data onto an internet page constitutes processing since placing information on an internet page entails the operation of loading that page onto a server and the operations necessary to make that page accessible to people who are connected to the internet which are performed, a
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The Court has held that the operation of loading personal data onto an internet page must be regarded as constituting such processing (see, to that effect, judgments of
May 2014, Google Spain and Google, C‑131/12, EU:C:2014:317, paragraph 26).
In that connection, the Court has also specified that placing information on an internet page entails the operation of loading that page onto a server and the operations necessary to make that page accessible to people who are connected to the internet. Such operations are performed, at least in part, automatically (see, to that effect, judgment of
November 2003, Lindqvist, C‑101/01, EU:C:2003:596, paragraph 26).