Data Protection Authority of Ireland · 2 September 2021
WhatsApp Ireland Ltd.
Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations
Fine€225,000,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Ireland
- Decided
- 2 September 2021
- Country
- Ireland
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/IE/006
What happened
The Irish DPA fined WhatsApp Ireland Limited €225,000,000 for negligently violating Articles 5(1)(a), 12, 13 and 14 GDPR. It ordered the company to bring its processing operations into compliance within 3 months.
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)(a)Read →
- Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subjectRead →
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
- Art. 14Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subjectRead →
- Data principles
- Transparency
Sources
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