Cyprus

Cyprus Police

6,000 €

GDPR enforcement action by Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner on 2020-10-22.

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#211

of 357 in Public Sector and Education

Rank · Cyprus

#25

of 47

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#1,606

of 3,050

Case details

Authority: Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner
Date: 2020-10-22
Controller / Processor: Cyprus Police
Sector: Public Sector and Education
Quoted Articles: Art. 32 GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security

Summary

A police officer had unauthorized access to a database holding personal data about vehicle owners and used the database for non-official purposes to pass information from the database to a third party. In this respect, the organizational and technical measures taken by the police to prevent unauthorized access to the database were insufficient to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of personal data to third parties.

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