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Door-to-door preachers, Jehovah’s Witnesses privacy-proofed

Door-to-door preachers, Jehovah’s Witnesses privacy-proofed

A few months ago, the European Court of Justice ruled that door-to-door preachers were also subject to data protection legislation.

Therefore, although freedom of conscience and religion had not been called into question, as they are protected by Article 10 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, according to the CJEU, adherents of religious beliefs such as those of the Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses do not carry out activities considered merely of a “personal and domestic nature”, but are also required to comply with the GDPR, just as Google or any other company that processes personal data for commercial purposes must do.

Noting that in the old continent, ‘spiritual preacher’ is not considered a purely personal vocation, but a real activity carried out on behalf of an organisation, even if in the case in question it is a religious denomination, Jehovah’s Witnesses have now decided to conform to the interpretation of the European Court, and in recent days have issued a circular to the more than 250 thousand adherents that it counts in Italy, They have now decided to comply with the European Court’s interpretation, and have issued a circular to their 250 000-plus Italian members specifying that they ‘will no longer be able to collect personal data in connection with their field ministry’, and that they will not take note of the addresses of people who are absent. This measure is so respectful of citizens’ privacy that it could even embarrass Catholic priests, who risk violating the GDPR if they write down the names of families who are not at home with the intention of coming back later to give everyone the chance to receive holy water at Easter.

On the other hand, it seems that Jehovah’s Witnesses will not at all stop preaching the gospel. In fact, in the same letter addressed to the approximately three thousand Italian congregations, it is said that, as well as giving their contact details to those interested in being contacted for further information, the proclaimers will also be able to ‘provide the person with the address of the nearest place where the meetings are held, or direct the person to jw.org’, the official website through which this religious confession spreads its message based on the Bible.

Nicola Bernardi, president of Federprivacy – @Nicola_Bernardi

Source: Federprivacy

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