It's a direct result. The principles from the Finnish case apply in all of Europe.
Is there a link to this case somewhere? A summary? Or maybe it was discussed on another thread?
2019 BOE Elders letter May 13 England - Ireland Data Protection
by Not_Culty 62 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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sir82
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Corney
keinlezard Same letter in France
And also in Finland, Baltic states, Poland and Spain. And in all EU and EEA states as well.
Interestingly, French letter was sent to congregations in metropolitan France and French overseas departments, whereas France branch territory also includes two sovereign non-European nations, Mauritius and Seychelles.
I'm curious whether this letter could be sent to Zimbabwean congs by mistake
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stan livedeath
slimboyfata day ago
And what publisher wants to hand out their number to first calls anyway? Unless to arrange a rendezvous,
which reminds me--can anyone recall when the phrase " rendezvous for service" was introduced---late 60's i think. i know i was a pioneer then. our congregation servant couldnt pronounce it--so he called it " that damn french word"
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Corney
sir82, you can read about this case and background in CJEU judgment and (non-binding) opinion of its Advocate General. In aftermath of this judgment, the Finnish Supreme Administrative Court uphold decision of the Finnish Data Protection Board "prohibiting the Jehovah’s Witnesses Community from collecting or processing personal data in the course of door-to-door preaching carried out by its members unless the legal requirements for processing such data laid down".
Some interesting legal blogs about the CJEU judgment:
https://leidenlawblog.nl/articles/knock-knock.-whos-there-the-data-protection-directive-95-46
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=77ddd905-24e9-445f-be42-7d014c38f549
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2018/07/is-data-protection-coming-home-cjeu-on.html
https://verfassungsblog.de/die-zeugen-jehovas-und-das-datenschutzrecht/ (in German)
It's worth noting (despite I have strong personal reservations about the judgment) that the proceeding before Finnish data protection authorities was initiated by a local ex-JW activist. Read more here: https://johanneksenpoika.fi/tietosuoja3/index.html (in Finnish)
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St George of England
Interestingly, French letter was sent to congregations
You would have to be English and of a certain age to appreciate that...….
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Anders Andersen
@corney, Nice summary.
Why do you have reservations about the judgement?
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Corney
St George of England, I just googled it and... at least, today I learned something new.
Anders Andersen, in my opinion, it's too broad. I also believe door-to-door note keeping isn't a serious privacy issue, in contrast to Bethel databases. Finally, I'm skeptical about GDPR in general.
I don't oppose the judgment and its consequences - frankly, I'm glad to see the recent changes - but I also don't consider this as a victory or something similar.
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Corney
Correction: the Zimbabwean letter (mentioned in the post above) was really sent by mistake. Therefore, the new policy applies only to European countries.
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Anders Andersen
Loooooool
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joe134cd
I was just thinking, this could open the JWs to contacting apostates in the territory. They no longer can record a person as a DNC ( unless the HH openly says they don’t want to be contacted). Therefore an apostate could reason well I want them calling on me so hopefully I can wake them up.