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Airbnb Ireland UC -

The DPC found that Airbnb did not validly rely on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR as the legal basis for processing the Complainant’s photographic ID and supplemental photographs; that Airbnb’s requirement that the Complainant verify his identity by submitting a complete and unredacted copy of his photographic ID constituted an infringement of the principle of data minimisation, pursuant to Article 5(1)(c); that by retaining, after the identity verification process was successfully completed and unt

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