Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH) · 18 June 2021
Magyar Telekom Nyrt.
Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights
Fine€28,400Fine issued
- Regulator
- Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH)
- Decided
- 18 June 2021
- Country
- Hungary
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/HU/003
What happened
The Hungarian DPA fined a telecommunications company €28,000 (HUF 10,000,000) for sending unsolicited emails to a data subject, despite several requests that his email be deleted, and for making the process by which data subjects can unsubscribe to emails unnecessarily difficult.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data5(1)(d)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Art. 17Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)17(1)Read →
- Art. 25Data protection by design and by defaultRead →
- Accountability
- Data principles
- Data subject rights
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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