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Under Article 2(2)(c) of the EU GDPR, the regulation does not apply to processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity”
Article 2 GDPR: Material scope, gdpr-info.eu (text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679), 2016, Article 2(2)(c).
Open the original- What it measures
- The exemption covers an individual who records a call for personal use. It does not cover a business that records calls or stores them for its own purposes.
- What it does not show
- The exemption is limited to purely personal or household use. Publishing a recording, or using it for a business or professional purpose, can take it outside the exemption. Member states' criminal rules still apply.