# Municipal employee: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

- Type: Enforcement
- Source: Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Date: 2020-06-08
- Original: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-317
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/46432
- Topics: Controllers, Education, IP Address, Public Authority, Processing, Data Controller, Public Sector, Supervisory Authorities

## Summary

In the context of a municipal election in 2018, the data controller had sent election advertisements to a group of employees of the same municipal administration, unlawfully using a list of contact data to which he had no access.

## Full text

In the context of a municipal election in 2018, the data controller had sent election advertisements to a group of employees of the same municipal administration, unlawfully using a list of contact data to which he had no access.

GDPR Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR
Industry: Public Sector and Education

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