{"id":415781,"date":"2025-01-09T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/01\/09\/corte-ue-genere-non-indispensabile-treno\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:25:29","slug":"eu-court-asking-for-gender-identity-to-buy-train-tickets-violates-eu-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/09\/eu-court-asking-for-gender-identity-to-buy-train-tickets-violates-eu-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"EU court: ‘Asking for gender identity to buy train tickets violates EU rules’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels –\u00a0‘Ma’am’ or ‘sir’? Neither one nor the other. When buying train tickets, first and last names suffice, and any gender indication is superfluous.<\/strong> It is not necessary\u00a0for transaction purposes, and requiring it to be specified violates the EU rules on personal data provided by\u00a0GDPR<\/a>,\u00a0this\u00a0Court of Justice of the European Union said, clarifying the scope of the new EU regulations on privacy and processing of citizens’ information.<\/p>\n

Data collected “must be adequate, relevant, and limited to<\/strong> what is necessary” in light of\u00a0the purposes for which they are processed, the Luxembourg judges said. The justice body added that selling a travel ticket does not justify requesting information beyond what is strictly necessary.<\/p>\n

The Court of Justice finds that a personalization of commercial communication based on an assumed gender identity according to the customer’s title\u00a0– ‘sir’ or ‘madam’ – “does not appear to be objectively indispensable<\/strong> in order to enable the proper performance of a rail transport contract.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

In essence, indicating “ma’am” or “sir” is not a necessary piece of information to\u00a0purchase a train ticket, and, therefore, one cannot be required to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the Luxembourg judges, the request is contrary to the GDPR privacy regulation: ‘Data collected must be limited, relevant, and adequate’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":415777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[27280,27282,26674,26099,27062,26139],"class_list":["post-415781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-dati-personali-en","tag-privacy-en","tag-transport-rail-en","tag-transport-en","tag-train-en","tag-cut-through"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415793,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415781\/revisions\/415793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}