# UWV (Dutch employee insurance service provider): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

- Type: Enforcement
- Source: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
- Date: 2019-10-31
- Original: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-107
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/46222
- Topics: Access Controls, Health Data, Security, Healthcare, Insurance, Employees, Supervisory Authorities, Identification, Special Categories of Data, Supervision

## Summary

As the UWV (the Dutch employee insurance service provider - 'Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen') did not use multi-factor authentication when accessing the online employer portal, security was inadequate. Employers and health and safety services were able to collect and display health data from employees in an absence system.

## Full text

As the UWV (the Dutch employee insurance service provider - 'Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen') did not use multi-factor authentication when accessing the online employer portal, security was inadequate. Employers and health and safety services were able to collect and display health data from employees in an absence system.

GDPR Articles: Art. 32 GDPR
Industry: Finance, Insurance and Consulting

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