Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) · 23 April 2021
Equifax Iberica S.L.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€1,000,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD)
- Decided
- 23 April 2021
- Country
- Spain
- Sector
- Finance, Insurance and Consulting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/ES/136
What happened
The Spanish DPA fined Equifax, a credit ranking agency, €1,000,000 for failing to comply with Article 5(1)(a), 5(1)(b), 5(1)(c), 5(1)(d) and with Article 14 GDPR. The authority ordered Equifax to stop the processing and to delete the related database.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Art. 14Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subjectRead →
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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