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Enforcement
Regulatory actions, fines, warnings, and enforcement decisions
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€1,000 American College of Greece: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Hellenic DPA (HDPA) imposed a fine of EUR 1,000 against the American College of Greece for violations of the right of access and the right to erasure of personal data. ·Art. 12 ·Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations Oct 29, 2020
€20,000 Università Campus Bio-medico di Roma (Polyclinic): Non-compliance with general data processing principles In a data breach notification pursuant to Art. 33 GDPR, the data protection authority found that patients accessing their online medical reports via their smartphones could also… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 9 Oct 26, 2020
€6,000 Cyprus Police: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security A police officer had unauthorized access to a database holding personal data about vehicle owners and used the database for non-official purposes to pass information from the… ·Art. 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Oct 22, 2020
€15,000 Vilnius City Municipality Administration: Non-compliance with general data processing principles During the data synchronization of the Population Information System of the Municipal Administration with the databases of the State Centre for Business Registers, the personal… LITHUANIA · ·Art. 5 Oct 21, 2020
€30,000 PS/00032/2020 A user of the website of Iberia, an airline, lodged a complaint before the Spanish DPA (AEPD) saying that they had not been given an option to reject the cookies when using the… Spain · ·Art. 22 Oct 16, 2020
€1,500 Political Party: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Sending of an e-mail to a former party member who had since resigned, with the request to act as an election representative without sufficient legal basis to process the personal… SPAIN · ·Art. 5, 6 Sep 11, 2020
€11,200 Warsaw University of Life Sciences: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Theft of a private notebook belonging to a university employee who also used this device for business purposes and on which personal data of candidates for study at SGGW was… POLAND · ·Art. 32 Sep 8, 2020
€5,000 Former mayor of a community: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Originial fine summary: Sending election advertising to citizens without sufficient legal basis. Update: On January 27th, 2021, the Brussels Court of Appeal overturned the fine of… BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6 Sep 7, 2020
€2,000 Istituto Comprensivo Statale Crucoli Torretta: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Publication of personal data of students on the website of the Institute with, inter alia, notes about health and progress in school due to technical failure. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 32 Sep 7, 2020
Datatilsynet (Norway)- 20/02254 The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) filed three complaints against the gay/bi dating app Grindr and five adtech companies that received personal data through the app.… 20/02254 (Grindr) · ·Art. 57, 58 Sep 7, 2020
€276,000 Bergen Municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security In October 2019, the Data Protection Authority was informed by the Municipality of Bergen about a data breach in connection with the municipality's tool for communication between… NORWAY · ·Art. 5, 32 Sep 3, 2020
€2,000 Comune di Casaloldo: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Publication of personal data on the website of the community. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Sep 3, 2020
€22,700 Surveyor General of Poland ('GKK'): Insufficient legal basis for data processing Processing of personal data on the GEOPORTAL2 platform in the form of land and mortgage registers (including names, surnames and other personal data) without sufficient legal… ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Aug 31, 2020
€5,000 Party of the Socialists of Catalonia: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Socialist Party of Catalonia has used the personal data provided by a professional doctor to send a letter to the complainant's relative asking for political support. This… SPAIN · ·Art. 5 Aug 17, 2020
€85,000 Tusla Child and Family Agency: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Irish DPA (DPC) fined Tusla Child and Family Agency EUR 85,000. The controller had reported 71 data breaches to the Irish DPA that occurred between May 25 and November 16,… IRELAND · ·Art. 32 Aug 12, 2020
€10,000 Community of Baronissi: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The community published on its website personal data of data subjects including names, birth dates, place of birth, place of residence, etc. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Aug 10, 2020
€2,000 School: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Placing personal data of pupils on a public notice board. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Aug 5, 2020
€5,000 National Institute for Social Security - Department of the Province of Brescia: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights ⇄ Failure to graint access to personal health data of a data subject according to Art. 15 GDPR. ITALY · ·Art. 15 Aug 4, 2020
€3,000 Candidate for parliamentary elections: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The data subject received telephone calls regarding a candidacy for parliamentary elections. When the data subject made use of its right to access according to Art. 15 GDPR, it… GREECE · ·Art. 15 Aug 3, 2020
HDPA 23/2020: Complaint against HEDNO S.A. for denial of employment certificate The data subject filed an application to the Human Resources Directorate of the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator S.A. [HEDNO S.A.] for the purposes of obtaining… 23/2020 ·Greece ·Art. 4, 5, 12 +6 Jul 30, 2020
€4,000 Region of Campania: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Publication of an enforcement order in civil proceedings on the Region's website. The document listed the names and place of residence and the amount of the claim. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Jul 29, 2020
€3,000 Community of San Giorgio Jonico: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Publication of personal data on the municipal website with regard to legal proceedings. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Jul 29, 2020
€3,000 Communal political association: Insufficient legal basis for data processing 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… BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6, 14 Jul 28, 2020
€22,300 Office for geodesy and cartography: Insufficient cooperation with supervisory authority Refusal of access to the premises by the supervisory authority in the course of an audit. POLAND · ·Art. 31, 58 Jul 15, 2020
€46,660 Municipality of Rælingen: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Fine for the processing of children's health data in connection with disability through the digital learning platform 'Showbie'. The Municipality had failed to carry out a Data… NORWAY · ·Art. 32, 35 Jul 10, 2020
€40,000 Tusla Child and Family Agency: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations The organization sent a letter with abuse allegations to a third party who then uploaded it to social networks. IRELAND · ·Art. 33 Jun 30, 2020
€6,700 Lejre Municipality: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The data protection authority had found that the Lejre Municipal Child and Youth Centre had regularly uploaded minutes of meetings with particularly sensitive and sensitive… DENMARK · ·Art. 5, 6, 33 +1 Jun 30, 2020
€5,000 New York College S.A.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The College had contacted the complainant directly by telephone with regard to an educational programme and had processed personal data in a non-transparent manner. GREECE · ·Art. 5 Jun 29, 2020
€13,500 Department of Home Affairs: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights Fines for failure to comply with the right of access to personal data under Articles 12 and 15 GDPR. The Isle of Man has declared the GDPR - although it is not an EU state - to be… ISLE OF MAN ·Art. 12, 15 ·Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights Jun 25, 2020
€6,000 National Police Brigade: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Making copies of a company's business records in the context of investigations which contained data from third parties and for which there was no legal basis for processing. SPAIN · ·Art. 5, 6 Jun 19, 2020
€7,500 PVV Overijssel: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations The Dutch DPA (AP) fined the Overijssel local branch of the PVV party EUR 7,500 for failing to notify the AP of a personal data breach, in violation of Art. 33 GDPR. An email… THE NETHERLANDS · ·Art. 33 Jun 16, 2020
€5,000 Municipal employee: Insufficient legal basis for data processing In the context of a municipal election in 2018, the data controller had sent election advertisements to a group of employees of the same municipal administration, unlawfully using… BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6 Jun 8, 2020
€75,000 Tusla Child and Family Agency: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The company has erroneously disclosed personal data, including information about children, to unauthorized persons. In one case, the contact and location data of a mother and a… IRELAND · ·Art. 5, 6 May 17, 2020
€11,200 Health and Medical Board of the Region of Örebro County: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Publication of personal data of a patient without sufficient legal basis. SWEDEN · ·Art. 5, 6 May 12, 2020
€18,700 National Government Service Centre (NGSC): Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations The DPA's decision shows that it took almost five months for the company to notify the data subjects of a data breach and almost three months for the DPA to receive a notification… SWEDEN · ·Art. 33, 34 Apr 29, 2020
€2,000 Political Party: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Forging signatures on a voters' list. BULGARIA · ·Art. 6 Apr 14, 2020
€5,000 Centro De Estudio Dirigidos Delta, S.L.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles Centro De Estudio Dirigidos Delta sent a message containing personal data such as first and last name and ID numbers to a third party via WhatsApp without the consent of the data… SPAIN · ·Art. 5 Mar 16, 2020
€9,000 Breiðholt Upper Secondary School: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security In violation of Art. 32 GDPR, a teacher had sent an e-mail to his students and their parents with an attachment containing data on their well-being, academic performance and… ICELAND · ·Art. 5, 32 Mar 10, 2020
€7,000 Hørsholm Municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security A city government employee had his work computer stolen, which contained the personal data of about 1,600 city government employees, including sensitive information and… DENMARK · ·Art. 5, 32 Mar 10, 2020
€14,000 Gladsaxe Municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security A computer, containing personal data that was not protected by encryption, has been stolen, including sensitive information and personal identification numbers of 20,620 city… DENMARK · ·Art. 5, 32 Mar 10, 2020
€4,000 Liceo Artistico Statale di Napoli: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The AEPD's decision reveals that the high school unlawfully published health data and other information in the teacher rankings published on the Institute's website. This… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Mar 6, 2020
€4,000 Liceo Scientifico Nobel di Torre del Greco: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The AEPD's decision reveals that the high school unlawfully published health data and other information of more than 2000 teachers in the teacher rankings published on the… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Mar 6, 2020
€3,000 San Giorgio Jonico: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Publication of a citizen's personal data on a website and failure to comply with requests for deletion. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 17 Mar 5, 2020
School in Gdansk (Danzig) (fine imposed against town of Gdansk): Insufficient legal basis for data processing Original summary: A school in Gdansk used biometric fingerprint scanners to authenticate students for the payment process in the school canteen. Although the parents had given… POLAND · ·Art. 5, 9 Mar 4, 2020
€290 Representative of a local government: Insufficient legal basis for data processing A local representative took a photo of the director of a company fully owned by the local government depicting the director allegedly tearing off an election poster of the… HUNGARY · ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +2 Mar 4, 2020
Rælingen Municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security On February 26, 2020, the Norwegian DPA (Datatilsynet) announced that it intents to fine Rælingen Municipality EUR 73,600 for violations of Art. 5 (1) f) GDPR and Art. 32 GDPR .… NORWAY · ·Art. 5, 32 Feb 26, 2020
€3,000 Colegio Arenales Carabanchel (School): Insufficient legal basis for data processing The decision of the data protection authority states that the school transferred pictures (and therefore personal data) to third parties, who published them without legal basis. SPAIN · ·Art. 6 Feb 14, 2020
€4,000 Comune di Urago: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The local council has published on its website information containing a person's personal data, including health information. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Feb 13, 2020
€4,000 Comune di Colledara: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Publication of documents relating to a public tender with personal data on a website ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Jan 30, 2020
€30,000 Sapienza Università di Roma: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The fine is based on the fact that, according to the data protection authority, the Sapienza Università made available online identification data of two people who had reported… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 32 Jan 23, 2020