# Communal political association: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

- Type: Enforcement
- Source: Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Date: 2020-07-28
- Original: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-380
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/46495
- Topics: IP Address, Education, Public Authority, Processing, Public Sector, Supervisory Authorities

## Summary

A local political association has sent out election advertisements to the residents of the municipality for the local elections in 2018. For this purpose, the association used the electoral roll from 2012 and compared it with that of 2018, without a sufficient legal basis and without appropriate information in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR.

## Full text

A local political association has sent out election advertisements to the residents of the municipality for the local elections in 2018. For this purpose, the association used the electoral roll from 2012 and compared it with that of 2018, without a sufficient legal basis and without appropriate information in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR.

GDPR Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR, Art. 14 GDPR
Industry: Public Sector and Education

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