Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) · 3 November 2020
Vodafone España, S.A.U.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€30,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD)
- Decided
- 3 November 2020
- Country
- Spain
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2020/ES/026
What happened
The Spanish DPA (AEPD) held that Vodafone infringed Article 6(1) GDPR by sending the complainant an SMS asking for the payment of a fraudulent contractual service. Vodafone was fined €30000 (guilty, voluntary and early payment reduction applied).
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Data principles
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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