Italy

Region of Tuscany

10,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) on 2022-02-10.

Rank · Sector

#180

of 356 in Public Sector and Education

Rank · Italy

#265

of 543

Rank · All fines

#1,345

of 3,039

Case details

Authority: Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
Date: 2022-02-10
Controller / Processor: Region of Tuscany
Sector: Public Sector and Education
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR, Art. 2-ter Codice della privacy
Type of violation: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

Summary

The Italian DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 10,000 on the Region of Tuscany. The region had notified the DPA of a data breach pursuant to Art. 33 GDPR.

The region stated that it had inadvertently published personal data of 3,548 applicants for administrative assistant positions. The data concerned information that the applicants had shared as part of a pre-selection test for the application. The region had mistakenly published a URL through which personal data and the results of the test could be viewed.

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