A court of the City of Buenos Aires overturned a precautionary
measure that ordered the local government from requiring teachers
to provide certain personal data.
The Court of Appeals in Administrative and Tax Matters of the
City of Buenos Aires (“the Court”) overturned a
precautionary measure requested by the Union of Education Workers
(“the UEW”) which had ordered the Government of the
City of Buenos Aires (“the GCBA”) to stop requesting
certain personal data (Court of Appeals in Administrative and
Tax Matters, Division II, “López, Eduardo Marcelo v.
GCBA”, Docket No. A14386-2016/3, March 6, 2017).
The UEW had requested a precautionary measure aimed at
preventing the IT system used by teachers in the City of Buenos
Aires from requesting information which they claimed was sensitive
and violated their privacy rights. The court of first instance
granted the measure and also held that it met the requirements of a
class action, since it sought to represent all the
