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🏦 Bank and Access

Confidentiality & Security | 08/04/2025

Source : PS/00477/2023 ·       A bank allowed unauthorized access to a joint bank account by a third party (the mother of one of the holders), withou...

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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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🇪🇸 No ID card by email

Confidentiality & Security | 30/03/2025

💥 Requesting an ID by unsecured email can be very costly! Source: PS-00457-2023Country: Spain, AEPD 🧾 Facts An investor requested information about ...

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🇫🇮 Costly negligence and security

Confidentiality & Security | 30/03/2025

🔐 Personal data & security  A loan comparator 📅 On December 17, 2024, the Finnish Data Protection Authority fined a loan comparator €950,000 for secu...

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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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🇪🇸 Data security and USB key

Confidentiality & Security | 28/03/2025

Source : PS-00117-2024 📢 A famous insurance company made a major mistake... 📌 Facts • 📅 Security Incident: On May 11, 2023, the ...

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🇫🇷 Data accessible on a server

Subcontracting, Confidentiality & Security | 27/03/2025

Source : SAN 2021-20 🔒 Banking Data Left on a Server: Service Provider Fined €180,000 🔒 A payment service provider has been fined €180,000 by the ...

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🏥Security and data breach

Confidentiality & Security | 27/03/2025

🏥 🇩🇪 German Hospital: €20,000 Fine for a Data Breach 🏥 🇩🇪 DPA: Data Protection Authority of the state of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) Violation: Artic...

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🇪🇸Parcel delivered to a third party and confidentiality?

Confidentiality & Security | 27/03/2025

🇪🇸📱 Delivering a mobile to the Wrong Person Can Be Very Costly Source: PS-00406-2023 A Spanish telecom operator was fined €70,000 for delivering a p...

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🇮🇹 Confidentiality: a doctor sends a file with his patients' data by email

Confidentiality & Security | 26/03/2025

🚨 A doctor forgets the fundamental rules of the GDPR! 🚨🇮🇹 📧 Sending a patient list by email, a costly mistake! To justify a work schedule change, a d...

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📢 Confidentiality: Sending an email to recipients with a non-blind copy!

Confidentiality & Security | 26/03/2025

Source: PS-00395-2023 Case of Commercial Prospecting Involving GDPR Violation 📌 Case Context: • A complaint was filed against the firm RECATALA AGRA...

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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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