Germany

Company in the financial sector

80,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg on 2019-04-12.

Rank · Sector

#97

of 322 in Finance, Insurance and Consulting

Rank · Germany

#34

of 116

Rank · All fines

#519

of 3,042

Case details

Authority: Data Protection Authority of Baden-Wuerttemberg
Date: 2019-04-12
Controller / Processor: Company in the financial sector
Sector: Finance, Insurance and Consulting
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 32 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Summary

In an administrative decision dated 12 April 2019, the authority imposed a fine of 80,000 euros on a medium-sized financial services company. This company had failed to take the necessary care to preserve the integrity and confidentiality of information within the meaning of Art. 5 para. 1 lit. f GDPR when disposing of documents containing personal data of two customers. Thus, without prior anonymisation, the papers were disposed of in the general waste paper recycling system, where the documents were found by a neighbour.

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