Germany

Surveyor

5,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg on 2022-09-21.

Rank · Sector

#28

of 86 in Real Estate

Rank · Germany

#78

of 116

Rank · All fines

#1,756

of 3,042

Case details

Authority: Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Date: 2022-09-21
Controller / Processor: Surveyor
Sector: Real Estate
Quoted Articles: Art. 6 (1) GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

Summary

The DPA of Baden-Württemberg has imposed a fine of EUR 5,000 on a surveyor. The surveyor had used his authority to inspect the electronic land register to identify several hundred property owners in two cases without their knowledge and had passed on the relevant information to a property developer. The latter in turn contacted the identified owners. The DPA determined that both the surveyor and the developer had unlawfully processed the data of the property owners.

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