Belgium
Municipal employee
5,000 €
GDPR enforcement action by Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) on 2020-06-08.
Rank · Sector
#230
of 357 in Public Sector and Education
Rank · Belgium
#35
of 50
Rank · All fines
#1,707
of 3,050
Case details
- Authority
- Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Date
- 2020-06-08
- Controller / Processor
- Municipal employee
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Quoted Articles
- Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR
- Type of violation
- Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Summary
In the context of a municipal election in 2018, the data controller had sent election advertisements to a group of employees of the same municipal administration, unlawfully using a list of contact data to which he had no access.
Open original source
Links to the regulator's original publication or another source.
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