# Region of Tuscany: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

- Type: Enforcement
- Source: Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Date: 2022-02-10
- Original: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ETid-1100
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/47215
- Topics: Data Breaches, Education, Personal Data, Public Authority, Processing Agreement, Public Sector, Processing, Human Resources, Supervisory Authorities

## Summary

The Italian DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 10,000 on the Region of Tuscany. The region had notified the DPA of a data breach pursuant to Art. 33 GDPR. The region stated that it had inadvertently published personal data of 3,548 applicants for administrative assistant positions. The data concerned information that the applicants had shared as part of a pre-selection test for the application. The region had mistakenly published a URL through which personal data and the results of the test could be

## Full text

The Italian DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 10,000 on the Region of Tuscany. The region had notified the DPA of a data breach pursuant to Art. 33 GDPR. The region stated that it had inadvertently published personal data of 3,548 applicants for administrative assistant positions. The data concerned information that the applicants had shared as part of a pre-selection test for the application. The region had mistakenly published a URL through which personal data and the results of the test could be viewed.

GDPR Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR, Art. 2-ter Codice della privacy
Industry: Public Sector and Education

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