Silence around Dimata's injury due to GDPR legislation

INJURIES It was striking how little Anderlecht communicated in recent weeks about the injury of Landry Dimata. 'Confidentiality', coach Fred Rutten even responded when he got a question about it. Sport / Voetbalmagazine now knows why Anderlecht stayed so quiet: the new European GDPR legislation.


In the newspapers there was occasionally something to read about Dimata's injury, but just as quickly that information was again contradicted by new messages. Sensitive and often erroneous information found the way to the press via a leak. Dimata made his complaint here internally. But to the outside world Anderlecht remained silent, while in the past it regularly gave a state of play about injured players.

Why not now? This is the result of the European legislation on the protection of privacy that came into force in May last year, the GDPR. It makes it punishable to release medical data without the consent of the person in question. "Players and journalists still have to get used to this new situation", Anderlecht says.

Crowd and supporters clearly too. So we will get used to the idea that in the future we hardly know how things are going with injured players. With Evgen Makarenko, for example, it has also remained silent during the past few months.