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(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Supreme Court, Latvia))
(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Scope of application of Directive 95/46/EC — Filming and publication on internet sites of a video recording of police officers carrying out their duties in a police station — Processing personal data and freedom of expression — Article 9 of Directive 95/46)
This reference from the Latvijas Augstākā tiesa (Supreme Court, Latvia) concerns the filming and publication on internet sites of a video recording of police officers carrying out their duties in a police station. The referring court seeks guidance as to the scope of Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data ( 2 ) and the interpretation of the exemption in Article 9 thereof (‘the journalistic purposes exception’).
Article 52(3) provides that in so far as the Charter contains rights which correspond to rights guaranteed by the ECHR, the meaning and scope of those rights is the same as those laid down in that convention.
‘… there should be excluded the processing of data carried out by a natural person in the exercise of activities which are exclusively personal or domestic, such as correspondence and the holding of records of addresses;
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