CJEU ruling causes “difficulty for fan page operators in fulfilling all data protection obligations”
7 June 2018 The Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) issued, on 5 June 2018, its ruling (‘the Ruling’) in Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein v. Wirtschaftsakademie Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (C-210/16) addressing preliminary questions referred by the Federal Administrative Court (‘Bundesverwaltungsgericht’) including whether an administrator of a fan page on a social network qualifies as a joint controller with regards to the processing of personal data of visitors to the page.