Norway

University of Agder

12,700 €

GDPR enforcement action by Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet) on 2024-09-04.

Rank · Sector

#159

of 357 in Public Sector and Education

Rank · Norway

#43

of 53

Rank · All fines

#1,254

of 3,050

Case details

Authority: Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet)
Date: 2024-09-04
Controller / Processor: University of Agder
Sector: Public Sector and Education
Quoted Articles: Art. 32 GDPR, Art. 24 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Summary

The Norwegian DPA has fined the University of Agder (UiA) EUR 12,700. An employee of UiA had discovered that documents containing personal data of employees, students and external individuals were stored in open Microsoft Teams foldersand that employees with no business need were able to access them. During its investigation, the DPA found that UiA had failed to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data.

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