Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) · 14 July 2020
Google Belgium SA
Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights
Fine€600,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Decided
- 14 July 2020
- Country
- Belgium
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2020/BE/008
What happened
The Belgian DPA (APD/GBA) fined Google Belgium €600000 for failing to respect a citizen's right to be forgotten, after Google refused its request to delist obsolete articles that were damaging to its reputation.
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. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subjectRead →
- Art. 17Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)17(1)(a)Read →
- Data principles
- Data subject rights
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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