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APDCAT (Catalonia) - PD 6/2021 The Catalan DPA issued an opinion at the request of the Ministry of the Interior in order to evaluate the Law proposal that will transpose the Directive (EU) 2019/1153, laying… PD 6/2021 ·Spain ·Art. 7 Personal Data Security Special Categories of Data Jul 22, 2021
€80,700 Medicals Nordic I/S: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Danish DPA (Datatilsynet) has fined Medicals Nordic I/S EUR 80,700. In January 2021, the DPA became aware that Medicals Nordic was using WhatsApp to transmit confidential… DENMARK ·Datatilsynet ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Healthcare Health Data Healthcare Jul 9, 2021
€20,000 UAB VS FITNESS: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Lithuanian DPA (VDAI) has imposed a fine of EUR 20,000 on UAB VS FITNESS. After receiving a notification from an individual stating that scanning a fingerprint was necessary… LITHUANIA ·VDAI ·Art. 5, 9, 13 +2 DPIA Biometric Data Privacy Impact Assessment Jun 21, 2021
€49,200 Moss municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Norwegian DPA (Datatilsynet) has fined the municipality of Moss EUR 49,200 for inadequately securing personal data. In January, the municipality of Rygge was annexed to the… NORWAY ·Datatilsynet ·Art. 32 Data Breaches Health Data Security Jun 4, 2021
€39,000 Municipality of Oslo: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Norwegian DPA (Datatilsynet) has imposed a fine of EUR 39,000 on the Municipality of Oslo. On a website of the controller a subpoena from the public prosecutor's office… NORWAY ·Datatilsynet ·Art. 5, 6 Healthcare Health Data Public Authority May 20, 2021
€84,000 Comune di Bolzano: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) has fined the municipality of Bolzano EUR 84,000. A former employee of the municipality filed a complaint with the DPA against the municipality. In… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +2 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Social Media Health Data May 13, 2021
€27,700 Budapest Főváros Kormányhivatala XI. kerületi Hivatalát (11th District Public Health Department of the Government Office of the Capital City Budapest): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Hungarian DPA (NAIH) has fined the XI District Office of the Government of Budapest EUR 27,700.The controller had emailed health data regarding Covid-19 rapid tests, as well… HUNGARY ·NAIH ·Art. 32, 33, 34 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Encryption Health Data Mar 24, 2021
€2,000 S.C. Medicover S.R.L.: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security In February, the Romanian DPA (ANSPDCP) closed an investigation against S.C. Medicover S.R.L. and found a violation of Art. 32 (1) b), (2), (4) GDPR. The DPA imposed a fine of EUR… ROMANIA ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 32 Data Breaches Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Healthcare Mar 23, 2021
€12,000 Nacionaliniam visuomenės sveikatos centrui (NVSC): Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Lithuanian DPA (VDAI) imposed a fine of EUR 12,000 on the Lithuanian National Health Service (NVSC). The DPA had opened an investigation regarding a quarantine app introduced… LITHUANIA ·VDAI ·Art. 5, 13, 24 +3 DPIA Health Data Healthcare Feb 26, 2021
€3,000 IT sprendimai sėkmei: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Lithuanian DPA (VDAI) imposed a fine of EUR 3,000 on the company 'IT sprendimai sėkmei'. The DPA had opened an investigation regarding a quarantine app introduced in Lithuania… LITHUANIA ·VDAI ·Art. 5, 13, 24 +3 DPIA Privacy Impact Assessment IP Address Feb 26, 2021
€6,000 Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) has imposed a fine of EUR 6,000 on Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Careggi for a breach of Art. 5 GDPR and Art. 9 GDPR. Azienda Ospedaliera… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9 Data Breaches Health Data Healthcare Feb 25, 2021
€50,000 Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Senese: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) fined Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Senese EUR 50,000. The controller, a hospital, had reported to the Italian DPA that a couple's medical report had… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9 Healthcare Healthcare Prior Consultation Jan 27, 2021
€10,000 Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Parma: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) fined Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Parma EUR 50,000. The controller, a hospital, had reported two data breaches to the Italian DPA in which… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9 Health Data Healthcare Data Breaches Jan 27, 2021
€50,000 Azienda USL della Romagna: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on Azienda USL della Romagna. Upon her arrival at the gynecology unit of a hospital operated by the controller (for the… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9, 32 Healthcare Health Data Healthcare Jan 27, 2021
€30,000 Azienda sanitaria provinciale di Enna: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA (Garante) imposed a fine of EUR 30,000 on Azienda sanitaria provinciale di Enna. The controller processed biometric data of employees for the purpose of… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Biometric Data Special Categories of Data Employees Jan 14, 2021
Company: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The DPA of Hamburg has imposed a fine in the six-digit range on a Hamburg-based company operating in the healthcare sector. The company had failed to take appropriate technical… GERMANY ·Art. 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Security Recipient Healthcare Jan 1, 2021
€10,100 Car trading group: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA of Hamburg has imposed a fine of EUR 10,110 on a car trading group. The company had informed the customer base that the reasons for the restructuring there was the absence… GERMANY ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Healthcare Health Data Processing Agreement Jan 1, 2021
€100,000 Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale Toscana Sud Est: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) imposed a fine of EUR 100,000 on Azienda USL Toscana Sud Est. The controller is a company in the healthcare sector that, among other things, launched the… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 13, 14 +4 DPIA Health Data Healthcare Dec 17, 2020
€40,000 Miropass S.r.l.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA (Garante) fined Miropass S.r.l. EUR 40,000. Miropass is the provider of the TuPassi booking system, which among others has been used by the Municipality of Rome… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +1 Storage Limitation Healthcare Retention Period Dec 17, 2020
€97,150 HUNGARY DPA: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Hungarian DPA (NAIH) imposed a fine of EUR 97,150 against a credit institute. Two parents contacted the Hungarian DPA regarding the processing of personal data by their credit… NAIH ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +1 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Health Data Personal Data Healthcare Dec 16, 2020
€6,250 LATVIA DPA: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Latvian DPA (DSI) fined an employer EUR 6,250 for sending personal data of an employee, including health data, to fellow employees by email. The DSI found that the data… DSI ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Personal Data Healthcare Health Data Dec 15, 2020
€20,000 Concentrix Cvg Italy s.r.l.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The union UILCOM Sardegna filed a complaint with the Italian DPA (garante) against the call center operator Concentrix Cvg Italy s.r.l. regarding an internal regulation of the… Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Healthcare Health Data Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Nov 26, 2020
DSB (Austria) - 2020-0.743.659 The data subject (customer) filed a complaint against a Viennese restaurant claiming a violation of § 1 Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz - DSG) and Article 6 GDPR:… 2020-0.743.659 ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +1 Personal Data Health Data Healthcare Nov 19, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9 Notification Obligation Data Breaches Health Data Oct 26, 2020
€600 Private Individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Between February and June 2020, a private individual published information about patients on his personal Facebook page. The information included health data in terms of Art. 4… AUSTRIA ·dsb ·Art. 5, 9 Healthcare Health Data Healthcare Oct 19, 2020
€35M H&M Hennes & Mauritz Online Shop A.B. & Co. KG: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The fashion company with seat in Hamburg operates a service center in Nuremberg. Here, according to the findings of the Hamburg data protection officer, since at least 2014… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Religious Beliefs Employees Supervisory Authorities Oct 1, 2020
HDPA (Greece) 32/2020: School unlawfully rejected religion-exemption request The complainant, making use of the Greek Ministry of Education and Religion's Order 12773/Δ2/23.01.2015, filed in the name of their son an exemption request from the participation… 32/2020 ·Art. 5, 9 Religious Beliefs Personal Data Special Categories of Data Sep 7, 2020
Privacy Appeals Board: Datatilsynet may demand information from OpenX under GDPR Art. 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) ·Norway ·Art. 57, 58 Telecommunications Cookies Supervision Sep 7, 2020
€65,000 Cork University Maternity Hospital: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The „Data Protection Authority of Ireland“ imposed a fine on Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) after the personal data of 78 patients was discovered disposed of in a… IRELAND ·Art. 5, 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Healthcare Health Data Healthcare Aug 18, 2020
€56 Health care worker: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Acess to personal data in a health database for private research activities. ESTONIA ·AKI ·Art. 5, 6 Health Data Scientific Research Healthcare Aug 17, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 15 Health Data Healthcare Personal Data Aug 4, 2020
€5,000 Global Business Travel Spain SLU: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The fine was preceded by an employee's access to health data of a person concerned. In the course of its investigations, the Data Protection Authority found that Global Business… aepd ·Art. 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Healthcare Controllers Security Jul 10, 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 ·Datatilsynet ·Art. 32, 35 DPIA Privacy Impact Assessment Health Data Jul 10, 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 ·Datatilsynet ·Art. 5, 6, 33 +1 Data Breaches Personal Data Public Authority Jun 30, 2020
€3,000 Estee Lauder Romania: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Processing of personal data without sufficient legal basis including health data. ANSPDCP ·Art. 6, 7, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Health Data Healthcare Personal Data Apr 23, 2020
€15,000 CP&A: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA (AP) has imposed a fine of EUR 15,000 on CP&A. The controller had documented both the causes of illness and specific complaints of the data subjects as part of the… THE NETHERLANDS ·AP ·Art. 9, 32 Health Data Healthcare Access Controls Mar 24, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Fairness & Transparency Health Data Education 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Fairness & Transparency Health Data Education Mar 6, 2020
€30,000 Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Integrata di Verona (Hospital): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The fine was preceded by access to health data by unauthorised persons, allowing a trainee and a radiologist to gain access to the health data of their colleagues. The… ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 32 Health Data Healthcare Healthcare Jan 23, 2020
€10,000 Community of Francavilla Fontana: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The community published on its website information about a court trial, including personal data such as health data about a data subject. ITALY ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6 Healthcare Personal Data Health Data Jan 15, 2020
€5,000 Entirely Shipping & Trading S.R.L.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The company processed biometric data (fingerprints) of the employees for access to certain rooms tough less intrusive means for the privacy of the data subjects could be used… ROMANIA ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +1 Special Categories of Data Employees IP Address Dec 13, 2019
€60,000 Corporación radiotelevisión espanola: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security CORPORACIÓN RADIOTELEVISIÓN ESPAÑOLA and the trade union have reported a security breach to the AEPD after six unencrypted USB sticks containing personal data were lost. The… SPAIN ·aepd ·Art. 32 Encryption Criminal Data Healthcare Nov 19, 2019
€900,000 UWV (Dutch employee insurance service provider): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security As the UWV (the Dutch employee insurance service provider - 'Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen') did not use multi-factor authentication when accessing the online… THE NETHERLANDS ·AP ·Art. 32 Access Controls Health Data Security Oct 31, 2019
€70,000 LGS Handling Ltd, Louis Travel Ltd, and Louis Aviation Ltd: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The decision found that the use of the Bradford factor for profiling and monitoring sick leave constituted unlawful processing of personal data in breach of Article 6 and Article… CYPRUS ·Art. 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Fines Audit Logs Oct 25, 2019
€2,000 LGS Handling Ltd, Louis Travel Ltd, and Louis Aviation Ltd: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The decision found that the use of the Bradford factor for profiling and monitoring sick leave constituted unlawful processing of personal data in breach of Article 6 and Article… CYPRUS ·Art. 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Fines Audit Logs Oct 25, 2019
€10,000 LGS Handling Ltd, Louis Travel Ltd, and Louis Aviation Ltd: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The decision found that the use of the Bradford factor for profiling and monitoring sick leave constituted unlawful processing of personal data in breach of Article 6 and Article… CYPRUS ·Art. 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Audit Logs Fines Oct 25, 2019
CNPD (Portugal) - Deliberação 2019/494 In its Opinion 20/2018 concerning the draft of Law 58/2019 which ensures the implementation of the GDPR in the portuguese national legal framework, the DPA drew the attention of… Deliberação 2019/494 ·Art. 2, 3, 5 +8 Controllers Processing Personal Data Sep 3, 2019
€511,000 DSK Bank: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Leakage of personal data due to inadequate technical and organisational measures to ensure the protection of information security. Third parties had access to over 23000 credit… BULGARIA ·KZLD ·Art. 32 Personal Data Insurance Security Aug 28, 2019
€18,630 School in Skellefteå: Insufficient legal basis for data processing A school in Skellefteå made a trial to use facial recognition technology. The fine was imposed against the school which had used facial recognition technology to monitor the… SWEDEN ·Art. 5, 9, 35 +1 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Biometric Data Biometric Data Video Surveillance Aug 20, 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 Healthcare Health Data Employees Jan 1, 2019