Germany

Food company

100,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg on 2019-10-24.

Rank · Sector

of 100 in Accomodation and Hospitality

Rank · Germany

#33

of 116

Rank · All fines

#455

of 3,042

Case details

Authority: Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Date: 2019-10-24
Controller / Processor: Food company
Sector: Accomodation and Hospitality
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 32 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Summary

The company had set up an applicant portal on its website where interested parties could submit their application documents online. However, the company did not offer an encrypted transmission of the data, nor did it store the applicant data in an encrypted or password-protected manner. In addition, the unsecured applicant data was linked to Google, so that anyone searching for the respective applicant names on Google could find their application documents and retrieve them without access restrictions.

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