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Regulatory actions, fines, warnings, and enforcement decisions
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€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
€1,168 Entrepreneur running a non-public nursery and pre-school: Insufficient cooperation with supervisory authority Fine for not answering requests for further information of the supervisory authority in due time following a data breach. POLAND · ·Art. 31, 58 Jun 3, 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 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing 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 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing 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 ·Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations 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
€8,000 Speech and Special Education Centre - Mihou Dimitra: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The complainant had requested access to his child's data and to tax information. This request was rejected by the data controller. In addition, the data controller had violated an… GREECE · ·Art. 15, 58 Mar 20, 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
€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
€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 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security 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 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
€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
€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
€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
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
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
€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 · ·Art. 5, 6 Jan 15, 2020
€9,000 Social Insurance Services of the Ministry of Labor, Welfare and Social Insurance: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Granting the police access to personal data and failing to take adequate measures to secure the data, despite the warnings of the Supervisor, constituted a breach of Article 32 of… CYPRUS ·Art. 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Jan 13, 2020
Municipality: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Czech Data Protection Auhtority (UOOU) CZECH REPUBLIC · ·Art. 5, 6, 13 +1 Jan 1, 2020
Operator of a ballet school: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The operator of a ballet school had published photos of underage students on their website and Facebook page without the consent of the legal guardians. GERMANY ·Art. 5, 6, 7 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2020
Public university: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Czech Data Protection Auhtority (UOOU) CZECH REPUBLIC · ·Art. 6, 13 Jan 1, 2020
€5,000 Mayor: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Fine for sending election mailings without a sufficient legal basis. The e-mail addresses used have not been collected for this purpose. BELGIUM · ·Art. 6 Nov 28, 2019
€5,000 Municipal alderman: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Fine for sending election mailings without a sufficient legal basis. The e-mail addresses used have not been collected for this purpose. BELGIUM · ·Art. 6 Nov 28, 2019
€9,380 Major of Aleksandrów Kujawski: Insufficient data processing agreement No data processing agreement has been concluded with the company whose servers contained the resources of the Public Information Bulletin (BIP) of the Municipal Office in… POLAND · ·Art. 28 Oct 18, 2019
€5,112 The Ministry of Interior Affairs: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The fine of EUR 5,112 was imposed on the Ministry of Interior Affairs for unlawfully processing the personal data of data subject A.K. The Ministry of Interior sent the personal… BULGARIA · ·Art. 5, 6 Oct 8, 2019
€15,100 Town of Kerepes: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The city based its video surveillance practice on its legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR). However, accordingt to Art. 6 (1) subparagraph 2 this legal basis shall not apply… HUNGARY · ·Art. 6 Oct 1, 2019
€28,100 National Revenue Agency: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The pecuniary sanction of EUR 28, 121 was imposed on the National Revenue Agency for unlawful processing of the personal data of data subject G.B.I. The personal data of G.B.I.… BULGARIA · ·Art. 6, 58 Sep 3, 2019
€2.6M National Revenue Agency: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Leakage of personal data in a hacking attack due to inadequate technical and organisational measures to ensure the protection of information security. It was found that personal… BULGARIA · ·Art. 32 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 Aug 20, 2019
€1,715 Government Office Managing the Real Estate Register: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The owners of a real estate complained that the government office posted its decision on the change in the person of the lessee (which concluded a lease agreement with real estate… HUNGARY · ·Art. 5, 14 Aug 8, 2019
€8,575 Budapest Environs Regional Court: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The chairman of the Budapest Environs Regional Court organised a meeting for court officials, during which he stated that he quit from the Hungarian Association of Judges and… HUNGARY · ·Art. 5, 6 Jul 17, 2019
€2,000 Mayor: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The administrative fine was imposed for the misuse of personal data by a mayor for campaign purposes. BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6 May 28, 2019
€286 Directorate of Social and Child Welfare Institutions of the Ferencvaros District of Budapest: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations The employee of the Directorate sent by mistake 9 letters to the wrong recipient, which contained personal data of 18 data subjects (including data of children, criminal data and… HUNGARY · ·Art. 33 May 21, 2019
€120,000 Oslo Municipal Education Department: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Fine for security vulnerabilities in a mobile messaging app developed for use in an Oslo school. The app allows parents and students to send messages to school staff. Due to… NORWAY · ·Art. 32 Apr 29, 2019
€50,000 Italian political party Movimento 5 Stelle: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security A number of websites affiliated to the Italian political party Movimento 5 Stelle are run, by means of a data processor, through the platform named Rousseau. The platform had… ITALY · ·Art. 32 Apr 17, 2019
€34,375 Hungarian political party: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations NAIH imposed a fine of HUF 11,000,000 (EUR 34,375) on an undisclosed Hungarian political party for failing to notify the NAIH and relevant individuals about a data breach, and… HUNGARY · ·Art. 33, 34 Apr 5, 2019
€170,000 Bergen Municipality: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The incident relates to computer files with usernames and passwords to over 35000 user accounts in the municipality’s computer system. The user accounts related to both pupils in… NORWAY · ·Art. 5, 32 Mar 1, 2019
€3,200 Mayor's Office of the city of Kecdkemét: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The fine was imposed on the Mayor’s Office of the city of Kecskemét for unlawful disclosure of the personal information of a whistleblower.NAIH imposed the fine after an employee… HUNGARY · ·Art. 5, 6 Feb 28, 2019
€5,000 Lands Authority: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security As a result of the lack of appropriate security measures on the Lands Authority website, over 10 gigabytes of personal data became easily accessible to the public via a simple… MALTA ·Art. 5, 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Feb 18, 2019