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📢 Spain, excessive data collection!

Data Subject Rights, Retention & Minimisation, Legal basis | 08/07/2025

📢 Do you work in the hotel industry 🇪🇸? Is your privacy policy really up to date? 👁️ If you go to a hotel in Spain 🇪🇸 Expect to fill in a form with 4...

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🇸🇪 Sweden: breathalyser tests

Retention & Minimisation, Legal basis | 30/06/2025

🛳️🫧 When daily breath tests sink GDPR compliance: the WÅAB case (Sweden) Regulator: IMY (Swedish DPA)Source: IMY-2024-1520, 18 June 2025 🔍 The facts...

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💥 Intrusive surveillance of employees

Data Subject Rights, Retention & Minimisation | 30/03/2025

Source : 10096474, Italy, Il garante per la protezione dei dati 🔍 When access to employees' computers turns into widespread surveillance... and cost...

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📢 GDPR & Rental

Retention & Minimisation, Confidentiality & Security | 30/03/2025

❌ No ID documents via WhatsApp or Email When a rental company requests ID documents via WhatsApp — including that of a minor! Source: PS 00175-2023S...

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🇫🇷 Insurance and excessive retention periods

Data Subject Rights, Retention & Minimisation | 29/03/2025

📢 €1.75 Million Fine for a French Insurance Company Source: SAN 2021-010 👉 The CNIL has sanctioned an insurance company for two serious breaches of ...

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🇫🇷 Excessive data collection

Retention & Minimisation | 28/03/2025

🚨 EXCESSIVE DATA COLLECTION • SENSITIVE DATA • LACK OF COOPERATION📅 SAN 2023-013 – September 18, 2023💸 €200,000 fine imposed on S__ LOGISTIC (air frei...

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🇫🇷 Non-compliant video surveillance

Biometrics & Video Surveillance, Retention & Minimisation | 28/03/2025

🚨 Workplace Surveillance: HR Practices Too Intrusive Sanctioned📦 From Scanners to Cameras: When Performance Oversteps Privacy Rights Source: SAN 2023...

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🇫🇷 Data security and real estate

Retention & Minimisation, Confidentiality & Security | 28/03/2025

🏠 Real Estate & Personal Data: €400,000 Fine📅 CNIL Decision – May 28, 2019 (Ref: 2019-995)🔍 A security breach + excessive data retention = double GDPR...

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🇪🇸 Spain: An Influencer Sanctioned by the AEPD After Posting a Video on TikTok!

Data Subject Rights, Retention & Minimisation, Legal basis | 26/03/2025

📢 Consent is Never Implicit! Source : PS 00471-2023 📱 A content creator posted a video on TikTok and Instagram, featuring a 13-year-old minor answe...

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🇪🇸 When a Loan Simulation on a Website Turns into a Real Loan…

Data Subject Rights, Retention & Minimisation | 26/03/2025

Right to Erasure Not Applied, a Bank Sanctioned by the AEPD Source : PS 00196-2024 📝 Facts A citizen conducted a loan simulation on an online compar...

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🚨 Abusive recording of employees, video surveillance, performance tracking software🇫🇷

Retention & Minimisation, Confidentiality & Security, Tools & Documentation | 26/03/2025

❌ €40,000 Fine for a Real Estate Company The CNIL has sanctioned a company for installing monitoring software on its employees' computers to track the...

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🇪🇸Privacy: Data disclosed by mistake

Retention & Minimisation, Confidentiality & Security | 26/03/2025

🇪🇸 🔍 Error: HR Data Displayed on a Company Bulletin Board! Source : PS 00467-2023 ❌ €70,000 Fine by the AEPD During union elections, the company INT...

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