Finland

Medical clinic

5,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Deputy Data Protection Ombudsman on 2021-12-26.

Rank · Sector

#182

of 270 in Health Care

Rank · Finland

#25

of 27

Rank · All fines

#1,752

of 3,050

Case details

Authority: Deputy Data Protection Ombudsman
Date: 2021-12-26
Controller / Processor: Medical clinic
Sector: Health Care
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 (1) a) GDPR, Art. 12 (1), (2), (3), (4) GDPR, Art. 13 (1), (2) GDPR, Art. 15 (1), (3) GDPR, Art. 25 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations

Summary

The Finnish DPA has fined a medical clinic EUR 5,000.
A customer of the clinic had complained to the DPA that he had not received access to his medical records from the clinic following a request for information.

In addition, the clinic failed to adequately inform its clients about the processing of personal data. Specifically, the DPA points out that the clinic did not inform its clients about the extent to which it was acting as a data controller for patient data generated by its activities.

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