# SCHWARZ V. BOCHUM, 17.10.2014 (“SCHWARZ”)

- Type: Case Law
- Source: CJEU
- Date: 2013-10-17
- Original: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62012CJ0291&ref=6165
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/6165
- Topics: Personal Data, Processing, Right to Restriction, Lawful Basis, Biometric Data, Biometric Data, Prior Consultation, Statistics

## Summary

Processing: Taking and storing fingerprints constitute processing. (¶¶ 28–29)

## Full text

## Court Summary

Processing: Taking and storing fingerprints constitute processing. (¶¶ 28–29)


## Excerpt

28      In addition, as can be seen from Article 2(b) of Directive 95/46, processing of personal data means any operation performed upon such data by a third party, such as the collecting, recording, storage, consultation or use thereof.

29      Applying Article 1(2) of Regulation No 2252/2004 means that national authorities are to take a person’s fingerprints and that those fingerprints are to be kept in the storage medium in that person’s passport. Such measures must therefore be viewed as a processing of personal data.

## Cited law provisions (2)

### GDPR — gdpr-art-1-par-2-en

This Regulation protects fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and in particular their right to the protection of personal data.

### GDPR — gdpr-art-2-en

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