{"id":23087,"date":"2018-06-25T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/news\/unlawful-data-processing-automatic-non-patrimonial-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:10:47","slug":"unlawful-data-processing-automatic-non-patrimonial-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/en\/insights\/giurisprudenza\/unlawful-data-processing-automatic-non-patrimonial-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlawful data processing: automatic non-patrimonial damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With its order No. 14242\/2018, the Court of Cassation was requested to rule on the existence of <strong>non-patrimonial damage in case of unlawful data processing<\/strong>. In particular, the dispute under the close examination of Court of Cassation concerned the order to transfer a Customs Agency employee after commencement of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office concerning such employee.\u00a0 The Order included in its own grounds the legal disputes in which the employee was involved and was issued by the Administration by using an ordinary protocol, fit for making the information on the employee\u2019s litigation involvement available to all the Agency\u2019s employees. Upon the outcome of the legal proceedings, the Court held that non-patrimonial damage had <strong>automatically <\/strong>arisen caused by the employer that processes the employee\u2019s personal data, in breach of the data protection rules, <strong>unless <\/strong>the <strong>employer <\/strong>itself <strong>has adopted all appropriate measures to avoid it<\/strong>, or is capable of <strong>proving the respective absence<\/strong> or, at least, the <strong>substantial irrelevance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its order No. 14242\/2018, the Court of Cassation was requested to rule on the existence of non-patrimonial damage in case of unlawful data processing. 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