# Food company: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

- Type: Enforcement
- Source: Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Date: 2019-10-24
- Original: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-190
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/46305
- Topics: Encryption, Security, Inspection Access Rights and Cooperation Obligations, Healthcare, Supervisory Authorities

## Summary

The company had set up an applicant portal on its website where interested parties could submit their application documents online. However, the company did not offer an encrypted transmission of the data, nor did it store the applicant data in an encrypted or password-protected manner. In addition, the unsecured applicant data was linked to Google, so that anyone searching for the respective applicant names on Google could find their application documents and retrieve them without access restri

## Full text

The company had set up an applicant portal on its website where interested parties could submit their application documents online. However, the company did not offer an encrypted transmission of the data, nor did it store the applicant data in an encrypted or password-protected manner. In addition, the unsecured applicant data was linked to Google, so that anyone searching for the respective applicant names on Google could find their application documents and retrieve them without access restrictions.

GDPR Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 32 GDPR
Industry: Accomodation and Hospitality

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