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Newspaper: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

€10,000 Fine
Newspaper
CYPRUS
Art. 6 GDPR

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The publication of the newspaper, both in hard copy and in electronic form, allegedly involved inconvenience, unnecessary and unlawful detention of a citizen, and revealed the names and pictures of the two police investigators involved, as well as the photograph of a third police investigator. The Commissioner considered that the aim could be achieved by referring only to the initials of their name and/or their faces being blurred and/or publishing photographs drawn from a distant distance so that it was impossible to identify the persons, and these actions would not bring any change in the nature of the case.

Industry: Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting

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