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Regulatory actions, fines, warnings, and enforcement decisions
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€1.2M MedHelp AB: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Swedish DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 1,200,000 on MedHelp AB. The fine is related to an investigation against three companies and three Swedish regions. In all 21 regions of… SWEDEN · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +2 Jun 7, 2021
€6,000 Comune di Commezzadura: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA (Garante) imposed a fine of EUR 6,000 on the municipality of Commezzadura. A former employee of the municipality filed a complaint with the DPA because a document… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Feb 25, 2021
€75,000 Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) has fined the Ministry of Economic Development (Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico) EUR 75,000 for failing to appoint a data protection officer by May… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 37 Feb 11, 2021
€95,500 Innovasjon Norge: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Norwegian DPA (Datatilsynet) fined the national development bank Innovasjon Norge NOK 1,000,000 (EUR 95,500). The controller had carried out four credit checks on the data… NORWAY · ·Art. 5, 6 Jan 4, 2021
Private individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA of Brandenburg has imposed a three-digit fine on a company employee. The employee had forwarded application documents received by his employer from his work e-mail address… GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
€400 Police officer: Insufficient legal basis for data processing A police officer had accessed data in police databases for private research purposes. The officer had purchased a notebook for private use on an Internet platform. Since the… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
Private individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA from Brandenburg imposed a three-digit fine on a company employee. The individual had sent an Excel spreadsheet with employee data of 56 employees to her private e-mail… GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
Police department: Insufficient legal basis for data processing A police officer had accessed data in a police database for private research purposes. The police officer queried the investigation process of a friend against the background of a… GERMANY ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
Company: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security A company had stored telecommunications hardware, a server and backup technology in a guest bathroom. The server cabinet, which did not have an intact lock, also served as a… GERMANY ·Art. 25, 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Jan 1, 2021
€20,000 Burgo Group S.p.A: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA (Garante) imposed a fine of EUR 20,000 on the company for non-compliant practices. Thus, for example, the personnel director forwarded an e-mail conversation… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 13 Nov 23, 2020
€4,000 Borgo Fonte Scura s.r.l.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA (Garante) imposed a fine of EUR 4,000 on Borgo Fonte Scura s.r.l.. The controller had installed a video surveillance system which also recorded the three data… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 13 Oct 29, 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
€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 Oct 1, 2020
€1,200 Legal Person: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The Czech DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 1,200 on a legal person. The complainant, through her attorney, requested access to her personal data. The accused failed to respond, even… CZECH REPUBLIC · ·Art. 15 Aug 31, 2020
€1,000 Supermarket: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The operator of a supermarket displayed the letter of dismissal to the personnel manager on the publicly visible notice board of the supermarket. ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Aug 4, 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
€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
€12,500 Unknown Company: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Processing of employee data without sufficient legal basis. FINLAND · ·Art. 5, 6 May 22, 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 · ·Art. 9, 32 Mar 24, 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
€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 · ·Art. 5, 32 Jan 23, 2020
€15,000 Allseas Marine S.A.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The data protection supervisory authority has fined the extent to which employee data are processed by a video surveillance system in the workplace, the fact that the introduction… GREECE · ·Art. 5 Jan 13, 2020
€5,000 Entirely Shipping & Trading S.R.L.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The company has excessively processed the personal data of his employees through the video cameras installed in the offices and in the places where there are cabinets where the… ROMANIA · ·Art. 5, 6, 7 Dec 13, 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 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 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 Oct 25, 2019
€2,500 UTTIS INDUSTRIES SRL: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The sanctions were applied to the controller because he could not prove that the data subjects were informed about the processing of personal data / images through the video… ROMANIA · ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +1 Oct 17, 2019
€2,860 Unknown Company: Non-compliance with general data processing principles An employee was on sick leave when his employer checked his desktop, laptop and emails to ensure that his work-related duties were being covered in his absence. The employer then… HUNGARY · ·Art. 5, 6, 13 +2 Oct 15, 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