Are test questions and answers personal data that needs to be provided pursuant to an access request? (German court VG Karlsruhe weighs in but equally interesting for US state data privacy laws) 🔹️Answers given by a student in a test could be considered personal data, however... test questions cannot be considered personal data. 🔹️The argument the test questions are strictly linked to the answers given by the plaintiff was also not accepted by the court which held that the questions do not reveal anything about the level of knowledge of the plaintiff and thus do not constitute personal data 🔹️Access requests under Article 15 GDPR serve the purpose of making data subjects aware of the processing of their personal data and to verify the legality of processing. Hence...it is irrelevant that the plaintiff needed access to the test questions for the purpose of interpreting the test result because he does not have a right to access under the GDPR for such purpose. 🔹️Test questions may constitute trade secrets Image by upklyak on Freepik #dataprivacy #dataprotection #privacyFOMO gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=V…