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€5,000 Restaurant: Non-compliance with general data processing principles Excessive use of video surveillance in violation of the principle of data minimization. GERMANY ·Art. 5 ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Nov 1, 2019
Deutsche Wohnen SE: Non-compliance with general data processing principles In addition to sanctioning violations of privacy by design principles (Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 25 GDPR - see separate entry), the Berlin data protection commissioner imposed further… GERMANY ·Art. 5 ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Oct 30, 2019
€100,000 Food company: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The company had set up an applicant portal on its website where interested parties could submit their application documents online. However, the company did not offer an encrypted… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Oct 24, 2019
€195,407 Delivery Hero: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights According to the findings of the Berlin data protection officer, Delivery Hero Germany GmbH had not deleted accounts of former customers in ten cases, even though those data… GERMANY ·Art. 15, 17, 21 ·Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights Sep 19, 2019
€200 Private person (YouTube-Channel): Insufficient legal basis for data processing The private person used a dashcam to make recordings of public road traffic and then published them on YouTube as a compilation. GERMANY ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Aug 5, 2019
€1,400 Police Officer: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The police officer, using his official user ID but without reference to official duties, queried the owner data concerning the license plate of a person who he did not know well… GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing May 9, 2019
€80,000 Company in the financial sector: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security In an administrative decision dated 12 April 2019, the authority imposed a fine of 80,000 euros on a medium-sized financial services company. This company had failed to take the… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Apr 12, 2019
€50,000 N26: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The fine was imposed against against a bank (according to a newspaper N26) that had processed 'personal data of all former customers' without permission.The Bank has acknowledged… GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Mar 1, 2019
€2,500 Private person: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Feb 5, 2019
€51,000 Facebook Germany GmbH: Insufficient involvement of data protection officer Whereas Facebook Ireland had appointed a data proteciton officer for all group companies located in the EU, this appontment was not notfied to the DPA Hamburg, competent for… ·Art. 37 ·Insufficient involvement of data protection officer Jan 1, 2019
€20,000 Hamburger Verkehrsverbund GmbH (HVV GmbH): Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations On July 6, 2018, HVV GmbH was informed by a customer about a security gap on the website www.hvv.de, which was caused by an update on February 5, 2018 and concerned the so-called… GERMANY · ·Art. 33, 34 Jan 1, 2019
€50,000 Unknown Company: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The data controller had engaged an external company to carry out the duties of access to data according to Art. 15 GDPR. However, the engaged company conducted the correspondence… GERMANY ·Art. 15, 28 ·Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights Jan 1, 2019
€800 Police Officer: Insufficient legal basis for data processing A police officer used a witness's personal data to contact her personally. GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2019
€2,000 Restaurant: Non-compliance with general data processing principles Video surveillance cameras have been used in violation of principle of data minimisation (monitoring also of customer areas in restaurants). GERMANY ·Art. 5 ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Jan 1, 2019
€500 GERMANY DPA: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights A data controller failed to comply with data subject´s request to access their personal data. Art. 15 ·Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights Jan 1, 2019
GERMANY DPA: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Eight fines between EUR 50 and EUR 800 for unlawful use of a dashcam. Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2019
GERMANY DPA: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Nine fines between EUR 350 and EUR 1,000 for unlawful use of a dashcam. Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2019
€80,000 GERMANY DPA: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security In a digital publication, health data was accidentally published due to inadequate internal control mechanisms. Art. 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security ·in Slovenian Jan 1, 2019
€294,000 GERMANY DPA: Non-compliance with general data processing principles A company was fined EUR 294 000 for 'unnecessarily long' storage and retention of personnel files and for 'excessive' data collection in the personnel selection process, during… Art. 5 ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Jan 1, 2019
Hamburger Volksbank eG: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The company had sent a customer a newsletter with advertising content by e-mail, although this customer had previously expressly objected to the sending of further advertising… GERMANY · ·Art. 21 Jan 1, 2019
€5,000 Kolibri Image
Regina und Dirk Maass GbR: Insufficient data processing agreement Please note: According to our information this fine has been withdrawn in the meantime. Kolibri Image had send a request to the Data Protection Authority of Hessen asking how to… GERMANY · ·Art. 28 Dec 17, 2018
€20,000 Knuddels.de: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security After a hacker attack in July personal data of approx. 330.000 users, including passwords and email addresses had been revealed. GERMANY ·Art. 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Nov 21, 2018
€20,000 GERMANY DPA: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations Late notification of a data breach and failure to notify the data subjects. ·Art. 33, 34 ·Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations Jan 1, 2018