Source: http://rychlicki.net/en/issue/polish-law/polish-act-on-telecommunications-law/art-192-tla/
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 04:18:50+00:00

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The biggest Polish telecommunication company – Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. posted on its website an offer to sell its databases. This offer was addressed to research and telemarketing companies, BTL advertising agencies, insurance companies and banks. TP proposed a disclosure of private telephone numbers of its subscribers as part of the database. Through this service the company was preparing a database of phone numbers compatible with the order placed and then it passed the database on a CD for a client with a protocol of receipt. The phone numbers could be selected or sorted according to geographical criteria.
The Inspector General for Personal Data Protection ordered not to disclose of personal data of subscribers of Telekomunikacja Polska’s who are consumers within the meaning of Article 221 of the Civil Code – CC – (in Polish: Kodeks Cywilny) of 23 April 1964, published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No. 16, item 93, with subsequent amendments, to third parties in the future.
The consumer shall be deemed to be any natural person who performs acts in law which are not directly connected with his economic or professional activity.
The prohibition was not allowed without fulfilling one of the conditions of Article 23(1) of the Act of 29 August 1997 on the Protection of Personal Data – PPD – (in Polish: Ustawa o ochronie danych osobowych), published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) of October 29, 1997, No. 133, item 883, unified text published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) of July 6, 2002, No. 101, item 926, with subsequent amendments.
The GIODO held that according to Article 159(1) of the Polish Act of 16 July 2000 on Telecommunications Law – TLA – (in Polish: Prawo telekomunikacyjne), published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No 171, item 1800 with subsequent amendments, phone numbers are deemed as the telecommunications secrecy. Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. filed a complaint against this decision.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 12 November 2007 case file II SA/Wa 1252/07 dismissed this case and TP S.A. decided to file a cassation complaint.
The Supreme Administrative Court in its judgment of 26 January 2009 case file I OSK 174/08 dismissed the cassation and held that Article 159(1) TLA provides for stronger data protection than the provisions of Article 23 of the PPD and therefore it will be used as a basis for legalizing the processing of telecommunications secrecy.
Categories: Art. 12(2) PPD | Art. 159 TLA | Art. 18 PPD | Art. 192 TLA | Art. 210 TLA | Art. 22¹ CC | Art. 23 PPD | Art. 26 PPD | Art. 5 PPD | Inspector General for Personal Data Protection | Polish Supreme Administrative Court.

References: Art. 12
 Art. 159
 Art. 18
 Art. 192
 Art. 210
 Art. 22
 Art. 23
 Art. 26
 Art. 5