Company: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
€135,600 fine - Polish National Personal Data Protection Office (UODO)
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The Polish DPA fined a company in the banking sector EUR 135,600. The DPA inspected the fined company and found several violations of the GDPR. First, the company failed to ensure that the DPO could report directly to top management and that the DPO did not receive instructions on the performance of the tasks given to the DPO. Second, the company failed to include profiling in the list of data processing operations. Third, the company failed to conduct a privacy impact assessment regarding the use of profiling. The violation regarding the DPO resulted in a fine of EUR 61,600. The violation regarding the unlawful use of profiling resulted in a fine of EUR 74,000.
GDPR Articles: Art. 38 (3) GDPR, Art. 30 (1) GDPR, Art. 35 (1), (7) GDPR
Industry: Finance, Insurance and Consulting