Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) · 8 December 2021
Not named in the source
Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights
Fine€10,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Decided
- 8 December 2021
- Country
- Belgium
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/BE/002
What happened
The Belgian DPA fined a company €10,000 for having bought and used a database for marketing purposes, without ensuring that this database had been gathered lawfully, and for failing to respect the rights of the data subjects, including the right to information, the right to object, and the right to erasure of personal data.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject12(3)Read →
- Art. 15Right of access by the data subjectRead →
- Art. 17Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)17(1)(c)Read →
- Art. 21Right to object21(2)Read →
- Data subject rights
- Transparency
Sources
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