Cyprus

Newspaper

10,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner on 2019.

Rank · Sector

#294

of 369 in Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting

Rank · Cyprus

#13

of 47

Rank · All fines

#1,318

of 3,050

Case details

Authority: Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner
Date: 2019
Controller / Processor: Newspaper
Sector: Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
Quoted Articles: Art. 6 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

Summary

The publication of the newspaper, both in hard copy and in electronic form, allegedly involved inconvenience, unnecessary and unlawful detention of a citizen, and revealed the names and pictures of the two police investigators involved, as well as the photograph of a third police investigator.

The Commissioner considered that the aim could be achieved by referring only to the initials of their name and/or their faces being blurred and/or publishing photographs drawn from a distant distance so that it was impossible to identify the persons, and these actions would not bring any change in the nature of the case.

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