Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 15 January 2020
TIM (telecommunications operator)
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 15 January 2020
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2020/IT/044
What happened
15 January 2020, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) imposed a fine of € 27.802.946 on a telecommunications company, TIM S.p.A. Following hundreds complaints related to the receipt of unsolicited promotional calls, investigations pursued by the Italian Authority revealed several unlawful processes of personal data for the purpose of promotional activities.
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Rules involved
- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal dataRead →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processingRead →
- Art. 17Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)Read →
- Art. 21Right to objectRead →
- Art. 32Security of processingRead →
- Data principles
- Data security
- Data subject rights
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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