Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) · 28 July 2020
Communal political association
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€3,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Decided
- 28 July 2020
- Country
- Belgium
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2020/BE/006
What happened
The Belgian DPA imposed a fine of 3000 euros on a local political association that has sent out election advertisements to the residents of the municipality for the local elections without legal basis and without providing information to the individuals.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal dataRead →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processingRead →
- Art. 14Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subjectRead →
- Data principles
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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