Iceland

National Center of Addiction Medicine ('SAA')

20,600 €

GDPR enforcement action by Icelandic data protection authority ('Persónuvernd') on 2020-03-10.

Rank · Sector

#95

of 270 in Health Care

Rank · Iceland

#11

of 22

Rank · All fines

#1,020

of 3,050

Case details

Authority: Icelandic data protection authority ('Persónuvernd')
Date: 2020-03-10
Controller / Processor: National Center of Addiction Medicine ('SAA')
Sector: Health Care
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 (1) f) GDPR, Art. 32 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Summary

Persónuvernd noted that a former employee of the SAA received boxes of allegedly personal belongings that he had left there, but which also contained patient data, including the health records of 252 former patients and documents with the names of about 3,000 people who had participated in rehabilitation for alcohol and drug abuse.

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