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Article 2 GDPR: Material scope
gdpr-info.eu (text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679), 2016
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- What it is
- The text of Article 2 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, which sets the material scope of the regulation and lists the activities it does not cover, including purely personal or household activity.
- How much weight it carries
- The regulation's text, reproduced on a reference site. The Official Journal of the EU is the authoritative version, and the English text here should be checked against it for legal purposes.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity” (Article 2(2)(c))