Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 10 June 2021
Dentist
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 10 June 2021
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Health Care
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/IT/041
What happened
The Italian DPA fined a dentist €20,000 for refusing treatment to patients who indicated that they had HIV in a patient history form. It held that there is no lawful or legitimate basis for collecting patient's infection history in order to withhold dental treatment from certain patients.
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Rules involved
The source doesn’t list which GDPR articles were involved.
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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