Political data breach in Malta: C-Planet refuses right to access and information

Political data breach in Malta: C-Planet refuses right to access and information Today, noyb filed a second complaint before the Information & Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) against the Maltese IT company C-Planet. In January, the company received a €65 000 fine by the IDPC for illegal collection and leak of personal information including political preferences on nearly every Maltese voter. However, C-Planet still did not give the name of the person from whom they received the data, and Maltese citizens are still left in the dark about the origin of the collected data. noyb is now explicitly asking the IDPC to order C-Planet to provide information about the original source of the data. Complaint filed in 2020. In November 2020, noyb filed a complaint against C-Planet IT Solutions, the company responsible for a leaked database of voter’s data in Malta. The leaked personal information included telephone numbers, dates of birth and, voting intentions and political leanings of ove