Belgium

Communal political association

3,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) on 2020-07-28.

Rank · Sector

#280

of 357 in Public Sector and Education

Rank · Belgium

#39

of 50

Rank · All fines

#2,011

of 3,050

Case details

Authority: Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
Date: 2020-07-28
Controller / Processor: Communal political association
Sector: Public Sector and Education
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 GDPR, Art. 6 GDPR, Art. 14 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

Summary

A local political association has sent out election advertisements to the residents of the municipality for the local elections in 2018. For this purpose, the association used the electoral roll from 2012 and compared it with that of 2018, without a sufficient legal basis and without appropriate information in accordance with Art. 14 GDPR.

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