# LINDQUIST, 6.11.2003 (“LINDQUIST”)

- Type: Case Law
- Source: CJEU
- Date: 2003-11-06
- Original: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62007CJ0557&ref=6194
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/6194
- Topics: Personal Data, Identification

## Summary

Persona Data: Holding that the name of a person in conjunction with his/her telephone number, and information about his/her working conditions or hobbies constitute personal data. (¶ 24)

## Full text

## Court Summary

Persona Data: Holding that the name of a person in conjunction with his/her telephone number, and information about his/her working conditions or hobbies constitute personal data. (¶ 24)

## Excerpt

24        The term 'personal data' used in Article 3(1) of Directive 95/46 covers, according to the definition in Article 2(a) thereof, ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person’. The term undoubtedly covers the name of a person in conjunction with his telephone coordinates or information about his working conditions or hobbies.

## Cited law provisions (2)

### GDPR — gdpr-art-3-par-1-en

This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union, regardless of whether the processing takes place in the Union or not.

### GDPR — gdpr-art-2-en

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