Norway

Innovasjon Norge

95,500 €

GDPR enforcement action by Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet) on 2021-01-04.

Rank · Sector

#92

of 322 in Finance, Insurance and Consulting

Rank · Norway

#16

of 52

Rank · All fines

#495

of 3,042

Case details

Authority: Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet)
Date: 2021-01-04
Controller / Processor: Innovasjon Norge
Sector: Finance, Insurance and Consulting
Quoted Articles: Art. 5 (1) GDPR, Art. 6 (1) GDPR
Type of violation: Insufficient legal basis for data processing

Summary

The Norwegian DPA (Datatilsynet) fined the national development bank Innovasjon Norge NOK 1,000,000 (EUR 95,500). The controller had carried out four credit checks on the data subject without any contractual basis for doing so. For this purpose, the bank had analyzed numerous financial data of the data subject over a period of three months without the data subject's consent.

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