A business can cite a GDPR breach in suing a rival for unfair competition, EU court opinion suggests

Article summary

MLex: Competing businesses can in theory sue one another for unfair commercial practices on the basis of breaches of EU privacy law, according to a legal opinion prepared for the EU's top court. It is considering questions about a German case where a pharmacist wanted to sue a competitor for unfair competition, alleging illicit processing of ‘health data’, and Advocate General Maciej Szpunar's opinion considered the status of the data in question.