(CN) — Selling access to people’s criminal records does not become journalism simply because a company says it is, Europe’s highest court ruled Thursday.
ND, convicted of a criminal offense in Sweden in 2011, has spent years trying to have that judgment removed from Lexbase, a searchable database operated by Legal Newsdesk Sweden. He is seeking 300,000 Swedish krona, about $31,000, in damages, arguing the company violated the European Union’s privacy law by refusing to erase his personal data.
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