Advocate-General Pedro Cruz Villalón has given his opinion in Weltimmo to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In Weltimmo, the CJEU is being asked to consider what jurisdiction Hungary’s Data Protection Supervisor has over a website in Slovakia that took advertisements for Hungarian real estate and then allegedly misused data. Villalón’s focus on fixed human and technical resources in determining establishment may be significant, Denis Kelleher writes for The Privacy Advisor, noting if the CJEU follows such an approach it “might encourage web-based firms to adopt an entirely web-based model and avoid establishing local branches or agencies at all, since they might then only have to interact with a single data protection supervisor.”
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