Dutch Supervisory Authority for Data Protection (AP) · 11 March 2021
Municipality of Enschede
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€600,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Dutch Supervisory Authority for Data Protection (AP)
- Decided
- 11 March 2021
- Country
- Netherlands
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/NL/013
What happened
The Dutch DPA fined the municipality of Enschede €600,000 for processing the personal data of 1.8 million unique mobile device owners between 25 May 2018 and 30 April 2020 without a legal basis.
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. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Data principles
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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