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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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🇪🇸 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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🇪🇸 No Facial Recognition System for Work Time Control!

Biometrics & Video Surveillance | 26/03/2025

AEPD Sanctions Cartonajes Bañeres S.A. for GDPR Violations 🇪🇸 Source : PS 00361-2023 The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has imposed a €220,00...

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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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🇪🇸 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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🇪🇸 CCTV Surveillance: When a Hotel Gets Tangled in Its Retention Periods!!!

Biometrics & Video Surveillance | 26/03/2025

⚠️ Inconsistencies in Data Retention Policy 📢 AEPD Issues a Warning! 📌 Facts: 📅 05/11/2022 – Client Request 🛎️ A guest at a Spanish hotel requested ...

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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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🇭🇺 🔍 Hungary: A Beauty Contest for Pregnant Women illegal!

Data Subject Rights | 26/03/2025

📢 A Facebook Contest launched by a deputy On January 28, 2025, a Hungarian MP launched a Facebook beauty contest for pregnant women titled “The Bless...

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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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🇪🇸 ✉️ No Commercial Prospecting via SMS Without Consent

Data Subject Rights, Legal basis | 26/03/2025

Source : PS- 00325-2024 📌 Context 📢 A citizen received a new unsolicited commercial offer for a gym membership. ⚖️ Complaint filed in March 2024 wi...

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🇪🇸 A health insurance contract… without consent!

Legal basis | 26/03/2025

📢 Erroneous Subscription and Unjustified Bank Withdrawals: SANITAS and BBVA Sanctioned Source : PS 00479-2023 📌 Facts: 🛡️ A health insurance contra...

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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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