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€400 Legal Person: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Czech DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 400 on a legal person. The accused did not provide evidence that the data subject had consented to the scanning or copying of their ID card… CZECH REPUBLIC ·ÚOOÚ (CZ) ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +3 Personal Data Consent Processing Jul 14, 2020
€5,000 Banca Comercială Română SA: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The data protection authority finds that the company has not taken adequate technical and organisational measures to ensure an adequate level of information security. This applies… ROMANIA ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 32 Security Personal Data Insurance May 5, 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 Security Healthcare Controllers Mar 24, 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 ·Datatilsynet (DK) ·Art. 5, 32 Encryption Security Personal Data Mar 10, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 32 Security Identification Education Jan 23, 2020
€2,700 Mall.tv: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Czech DPA (UOOU) fined Mall.tv EUR 2,700 for recording parts of the public space without a legal basis. The subject of the DPA's investigation was the operation of two cameras… CZECH REPUBLIC ·ÚOOÚ (CZ) ·Art. 5, 6 Identification Processing Telecommunications Jan 1, 2020
The complainant belongs to a political party and is a member of the city council of an Austrian municipality In November, the municipality held a meeting on the "parking space concept", to which a certain group of addressees, including the complainant, was invited. The complainant did… DSB-D123.768/0004-DSB/201 ·Austria ·DSB Pseudonymization Anonymization Personal Data Dec 18, 2019
€15,000 Website providing legal information: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations An operator of a website for legal news had the privacy statement only available in English, although it was also addressed to a Dutch and French speaking audience. In addition,… BELGIUM ·APD/GBA ·Art. 6, 12, 13 Personal Data Fairness & Transparency IP Address Dec 17, 2019
€75,000 Curenergía Comercializador de último recurso: Insufficient legal basis for data processing An individual filed a complaint against the company alleging that the company had used its personal data as a former customer, such as first and last name, VAT identification… SPAIN ·AEPD ·Art. 6 Personal Data Processing Identification Nov 28, 2019
€11,000 FAN Courier Express SRL: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The fine was imposed because the controller failed to take appropriate technical and organisational measures leading to the loss and unauthorised access to personal data (name,… ROMANIA ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 32 Personal Data Security Right of Access Nov 25, 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 Personal Data Security 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 Security Insurance Healthcare Oct 31, 2019
€10,000 Merchant: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Belgian data protection authority has imposed a fine of 10,000 euros on a merchant who wanted to use an electronic identity card (eID) to create a customer card. The DPA's… BELGIUM ·APD/GBA ·Art. 5 Personal Data Identification Processing Sep 17, 2019
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 ·Portugal ·CNPD (PT) Controllers Legitimate Interest 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 ·CPDP ·Art. 32 Personal Data Security Insurance Aug 28, 2019
€180,000 ACTIVE ASSURANCES (car insurer): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Large amount of customer accounts, clients' documents (including copies of driver's licences, vehicle registration, bank statements and documents to determine whether a person had… FRANCE ·CNIL ·Art. 32 Security Insurance Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Jul 25, 2019
€400,000 SERGIC (Real Estate): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The CNIL based the penalty on two grounds: Lack of basic security measures and excessive data storage. As to the first, sensitive user documents uploaded by rental candidates… FRANCE ·CNIL ·Art. 5 Security Identification Access Controls May 28, 2019
€10,000 CZECH REPUBLIC DPA: Non-compliance with general data processing principles Data was not only processed if adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed ('data minimisation') and not only kept… ÚOOÚ (CZ) ·Art. 5 ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Retention Period Storage Limitation Personal Data Mar 21, 2019
€27,100 Telecommunication service provider: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Repeated registration of prepaid services without the knowledge and consent of the data subject Employees of the telecommunications provider have used personal data and registered… BULGARIA ·CPDP ·Art. 5, 6 Personal Data Consent Telecommunications Feb 26, 2019
€1,560 Debt collector: Non-compliance with general data processing principles A data subject requested information about and erasure of the data processed, which the debt collector refused stating that it could not identify the subject. For identification… HUNGARY ·NAIH ·Art. 5 Personal Data Controllers Transparency Feb 20, 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 Processing Identification Recipient Feb 5, 2019
€21,000 Vodafone España, S.A.U.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Vodafone had processed personal data of the claimant (bank details, name, surname and national identification number) years after the contractual relationsid had ended. The fine… SPAIN ·AEPD ·Art. 6 Personal Data Telecommunications Processing Jan 1, 2019