Overview
- An Austrian court dismissed the suit by Beran A, who was convicted in May and sentenced to 15 years for planning the foiled 2024 Vienna attack.
- Judge Nicole Baczak said the claimant had not lived at the house for two years and had no realistic prospect of returning, which was central to rejecting his privacy claim.
- Disney told the court it removed the brief shot of the parents’ home in May 2026 and separately paid each resident €3,000 in a settlement.
- The defendant did not attend the one-hour trial and his lawyer, Ulrike Zeller, said he will appeal the ruling to a higher court.
- The decision reflects how European privacy law treats home addresses as lower-sensitivity data and could shape future claims about filmed private property if an appellate court alters the residency-based test.