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Regulatory actions, fines, warnings, and enforcement decisions
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€15,000 Mediacom s.r.l.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA (Garante) has imposed a fine of EUR 15,000 on Mediacom s.r.l.. The controller carried out advertising calls on behalf of TIM s.p.a.. Several of the calls were made… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6 Mar 11, 2021
€8,000 Filigrana Comunicación S.L.U.: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Spanish DPA (AEPD) fined Filigrana Comunicación S.L.U. EUR 8,000. The controller operates a website that provides information on internships offered by the Spanish Ministry of… SPAIN · ·Art. 6, 13, 14 Mar 10, 2021
€200 Self Employed Person: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Czech DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 200 on a self employed person. The accused obtained scans of identity cards from foreign subjects who booked accommodation there and kept… CZECH REPUBLIC · ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +4 Mar 10, 2021
€40,000 Electricity Authority of Cyprus: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Cypriot DPA imposed a fine of EUR 40,000 on the Electricity Authority of Cyprus. The controller used an automated system based on the so-called Brad-Factor to manage, monitor… ·Art. 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Mar 3, 2021
€9,000 SPAIN DPA: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine of EUR 9,000 on a website operator. The controller had published photos of the data subject on its website without the consent of the data… ·Art. 6, 13 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Mar 2, 2021
€20,000 Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA (Garante) has fined Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A. 20,000 euros. The controller had published photos in its newspaper of people who were in custody in connection… ITALY · ·Art. 5 Feb 25, 2021
€13,450 IDdesign A / S: Non-compliance with general data processing principles Original summary: On June 3, 2019, the Danish DPA (Datatilsynet) reported IDdesign to the police and demanded payment of a fine in the amount of EUR 200,850 for the processing of… DENMARK · ·Art. 5 Feb 12, 2021
€50,000 Family Service / N.D.P.K. nv.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Belgian DPA imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on Family Service / N.D.P.K. nv. The controller is an advertising agency that, among other things, sends expectant mothers gift boxes… BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +4 Jan 27, 2021
€50,000 Alterna Operador Integral S.L.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on Alterna Operador Integral S.L.. A switch of the electricity supplier had taken place without the consent of the data… SPAIN · ·Art. 6 Jan 21, 2021
€2M Caixabank S.A.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) fined Caixabank S.A. EUR 6,000,000 for violations of Art. 6 GDPR, Art. 13 GDPR and Art. 14 GDPR. Customers of the bank were supposed to accept new privacy… SPAIN · ·Art. 6, 13, 14 Jan 13, 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
€5,000 Private individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA of Hamburg imposed a fine of EUR 5,000 on a private individual. The individual had filmed numerous young women in public. Some of the recorded female persons were… GERMANY · ·Art. 5, 6 Jan 1, 2021
Physician: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA of Brandenburg imposed a fine on a physician. The father of a minor patient had filed a complaint with the DPA because the physician had transmitted numerous data on his… GERMANY ·Art. 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
Medical clinic: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA from Berlin has imposed a fine on a medical clinic. The clinic had installed 21 cameras in its premises for the purpose of protection against crime and property damage.… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
Physician: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA of Brandenburg has imposed a four-digit fine on a doctor of child and adolescent psychotherapy. The doctor had set up a Whatsgroup with 230 participants to communicate… GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
€3,000 ING Bank N.V. Amsterdam - Bucharest office: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Romanian DPA (ANSPDCP) fined ING Bank N.V. Amsterdam - Bucharest office in the amount of EUR 3,000. The bank had contacted the data subject by e-mail for the purpose of… ROMANIA · ·Art. 5, 6 Dec 30, 2020
€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 · ·Art. 5, 13, 14 +4 Dec 17, 2020
€10,000 Online Services: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Spanish DPA (AEPD) fined the operator of the online store banderacatalana.cat. EUR 10,000 for a violation of Art. 13 GDPR. The operator stated on its website privacy notices… SPAIN · ·Art. 6, 8, 13 Dec 15, 2020
€5M Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Spanish DPA (AEPD) fined Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. EUR 5,000,000 for violating Art. 6 GDPR (EUR 3,000,000) and Art. 13 GDPR (EUR 2,000,000). The bank had not… SPAIN · ·Art. 6, 13 Dec 11, 2020
€4,000 Borjamotor, S.A.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine of EUR 4,000 on Borjamotor, S.A. The company kept sending commercial advertisements to the data subject via email and SMS, even though the… SPAIN · ·Art. 7 Dec 10, 2020
€40,000 Xfera Moviles S.A.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine on Xfera Móviles, S.A. due to insufficient legal basis for data processing. The data subject states that two telephone and internet… SPAIN · ·Art. 6 Dec 9, 2020
€10,000 SPAIN DPA: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine of 10,000 EUR on a company for violating Art. 5 GDPR. The company sent an e-mail to a third party with the dismissal and settlement document… ·Art. 5 ·Non-compliance with general data processing principles Dec 9, 2020
€7,300 Perfomeclic: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The French DPA (CNIL) imposed a fine of EUR 7,300 on the company Perfomeclic. The company had sent commercial advertising emails without a proof of prior consent and without… FRANCE · ·Art. 5, 14, 21 +1 Dec 7, 2020
€35M CNIL · SAN-2020-013 Between December 2019 and May 2020, the CNIL conducted three online and one on-site investigations on Amazon Europe Core (AEC), a subsidiary company of the Amazon group operating… France ·Art. 6, 9, 83 +1 Dec 7, 2020
€5,000 Asociación de Víctimas por Arbitrariedades Judiciales, (JAVA): Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine of EUR 5,000 on the association for publishing the personal data of the data subjects on its website. The data had been unlawfully recorded… SPAIN · ·Art. 6 Dec 2, 2020
€6,000 Servicio de Alojamientos Responsables, S.L.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine in the amount of EUR 6,000 against the controller for unauthorized conclusion of a contract in the name of the data subject without his/her… SPAIN · ·Art. 6 Dec 2, 2020
€100,000 Apotheka e-apteek: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Estonian DPA (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) fined three online pharmacies EUR 100,000 each for processing personal data without the consent of the data subjects. The data in… ESTONIA · ·Art. 5, 6 Dec 1, 2020
€100,000 Südameapteegi e-apteek: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Estonian DPA (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) fined three online pharmacies EUR 100,000 each for processing personal data without the consent of the data subjects. The data in… ESTONIA · ·Art. 5, 6 Dec 1, 2020
€100,000 Azeta.ee e-apteek: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Estonian DPA (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) fined three online pharmacies EUR 100,000 each for processing personal data without the consent of the data subjects. The data in… ESTONIA · ·Art. 5, 6 Dec 1, 2020
€1,200 Private Individual: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine in the amount of EUR 1,200 on a private individual for impersonating a third party on the social networks Tinder and WhatsApp by using images… SPAIN · ·Art. 5 Nov 27, 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… ·Art. 5, 6, 9 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Nov 26, 2020
€40,000 Miraclia Telecomunicaciones S.L.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Spanish DPA (AEPD) imposed a fine of EUR 40,000 on Miraclia Telecomunicaciones S.L. for violating Articles 6, 13 and 14 of the GDPR. Miraclia Telecomunicaciones S.L. is the… SPAIN · ·Art. 6, 13, 14 Nov 25, 2020
DSB Austria: Restaurant contact-tracing data collected for COVID-19 qualifies as health 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 Nov 19, 2020
€12M Vodafone Italia S.p.A.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The company was fined EUR 12,251,601 for unlawfully processing personal data of millions of customers for telemarketing purposes. The proceedings were preceded by hundreds of… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +7 Nov 12, 2020
€42,000 Vodafone España, S.A.U.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The company ported a telephone number of the data subject without their consent (missing signature on the porting contract). SPAIN · ·Art. 5, 6 Nov 11, 2020
Austrian DSB: Controller's use of social security number for statutory financial aid was The controller shared the data subject's social security number with a financial service provider in order to provide financial aid, to which the data subject did not consent. On… 2020-0.714.215 ·Austria ·Art. 4, 9 Nov 5, 2020
€4,000 Organic Natur 03 S.L.: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations Use of a membership contract containing pre-defined privacy clauses, which prevents effective negotiation and the express consent of the signing client. SPAIN · ·Art. 13 Oct 26, 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
€400 Legal Person: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Czech DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 400 on a legal person. Proceedings were initiated following an inspection carried out in response to a complaint. The accused processed and… CZECH REPUBLIC · ·Art. 5, 13, 28 +1 Sep 25, 2020
€7,800 Iweb Internet Learning, S.L.: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations Lack of information in the privacy policy (information on the data controller) as well as inadequate obtaining of consent, as only a general consent could be given without… SPAIN · ·Art. 7, 12, 13 Sep 22, 2020
IP Slovenia: ZEKom-1 governs legal basis for NIJZ #StayHealthy SMS to users The IP received a request for an opinion concerning sending of an SMS message to users about the new #StayHealthy app created by the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ).… 07121-1/2020/1570 · ·Art. 6, 58 Sep 11, 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
GBP 130,000 CPS Advisory Limited CPS Advisory Limited (CPSAL) conducted direct marketing calls in relation to personal pensions. The data CPSAL used to conduct the calls had been purchased from third party data… United Kingdom · ·Art. 55A Sep 4, 2020
€5,000 Basketball Federation of Castilla and Leon: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Basketball Association transmitted personal data to third parties, which were subsequently published on the Internet without consent of the data subjects. In addition, the… SPAIN · ·Art. 5, 6 Aug 28, 2020
€7,000 Acc Consulting Varsinais-Suomi: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Unsolicited marketing SMS without prior consent FINLAND · ·Art. 5, 6 Aug 5, 2020
€75,000 Telefónica Móviles España, SAU: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The company had carried out the number porting of his telephone line from his current company without his consent. Personal data was transferred from the former telephone operator… SPAIN · ·Art. 5, 6 Jul 23, 2020
€5,000 El Real Sporting de Gijón S.A.D.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Fines for sending direct marketing communications without sufficient consent, as the form Real Sporting de Gijón submitted to club members did not comply with the GDPR (opt-out… SPAIN · ·Art. 6, 7 Jul 23, 2020
€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 · ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +3 Jul 14, 2020
€5,000 Operator of CCTV of a residential building: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The operator of video cameras on a residential property had installed cameras there to monitor the shared area of two blocks of flats. The data controller argued that the owners… BELGIUM · ·Art. 6, 7 Jul 14, 2020
€17M Wind Tre S.p.A.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Fines for several unlawful data processing activities relating to direct marketing. Hundreds of data subjects claimed to have received unsolicited communications sent without… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +2 Jul 13, 2020