The Open Rights Group have published a report on their experience with representative actions under article 80(1) of the UK GDPR and Section 187 of the Data Protection Act 2018. The report is based on an effort to commence representative action over illegal profiling for electoral purposes during the 2019 UK General Elections. While the subject of the complaint was settled without litigation, the ORG experiences are of value for other organisations that may be considering taking representative actions themselves.
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