Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) · 3 August 2020
Candidate for parliamentary elections
Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights
- Regulator
- Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA)
- Decided
- 3 August 2020
- Country
- Greece
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2020/GR/004
What happened
The HPDA of Greece imposed a fine of EUR 3,000 on a candidate of the June 2019 Greek parliamentary elections due to the violation - via the candidate's pre-election manually operated phone calls-made campaign - of the data subject's right to access their data (Article 15 GDPR) and the violation of Article 11(2) Law 3471/2006 that concerns the protection of personal data in the sector of electronic communications and, more especially, the "opt-out" system regarding manually operated phone calls for promotional purposes.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Data subject rights
Sources
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