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🇪🇸Privacy: A Bug Generates Automatic Sending of Data to Third Parties

Confidentiality & Security | 26/03/2025

🚨 Health Data and Adequate Protection! 🚨 Source : PS 00540-2024 A Spanish health insurance provider fined €600,000 for a confidentiality breach. The...

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🇪🇸 Garbage: Lack of data confidentiality, a club sanctioned

Confidentiality & Security | 26/03/2025

⚠️ Using a Document Shredder Can Prevent Penalties! ⚠️ Source : PS-00460-2024 🏆 A Spanish football club fined for throwing personal data in the tras...

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🇪🇸 Insurance company fined for safety failure ⚖️💰

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

Source : PS-00453-2023 🔴 The Facts 📅 October 2022: A cyberattack 💻 compromised the personal data of 1.6 million people. 🔓 Method: A brute force attac...

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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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🇪🇸 Spain: When a postal service provider abandons letters in a field...

Confidentiality & Security | 26/03/2025

📄 Facts: • September 28, 2022: 📌 Police in La Palma discovered 1,404 letters abandoned in a field. 📌 A complaint was filed with the AEPD. The provide...

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🇪🇸 An Employer Cannot Publish Personal Information About a Former Employee in Comments 🇪🇸

Confidentiality & Security, Legal basis | 26/03/2025

Source : PS-00395-2021 👁️ Facts: In response to negative reviews left by customers on Google, a Spanish café published the personal data of its form...

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👠🇫🇷 An E-Commerce Website Fined for Excessive Data Collection 🇫🇷👠

Retention & Minimisation, Confidentiality & Security | 25/03/2025

💸 The CNIL has imposed a €250,000 fine 💸 Facts: As part of evaluating and training its employees, the e-commerce website recorded customer service ca...

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🇪🇸 When a Spanish Employer Accidentally Shares the Payslips of 446 Employees 🇪🇸

Confidentiality & Security | 25/03/2025

🇪🇸 Source: PS-00238-2024 👕👗 Facts: A former employee of a clothing brand requested information about their payslip for July 2022. In response, the e...

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Lack of Security and Failure to Report Data Breach ⚕️

Confidentiality & Security | 25/03/2025

Administrative sanction against two doctors of 3,000 and 6,000 Euros, following a data leak. Source: SAN 2019-014 🔍 Context: Thousands of medical im...

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🇫🇷 Excessive data collection by an online clairvoyance company

Retention & Minimisation, Confidentiality & Security | 25/03/2025

🔮 CNIL Fines an Online Fortune-Telling Company Source : SAN 2023-008 of June 8, 2023 Violations: 🛑 EXCESSIVE DATA COLLECTION 📋 CONSENT 💉 SENSI...

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🇵🇱 Ban on using personal data for testing 🇵🇱

Subcontracting, Confidentiality & Security | 25/03/2025

The Polish DPA sanctions a data controller and its processor  Source : DKN 5130.2215.2020 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 The Polish Data Protection Authority (DPA) imposed ...

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