Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) · 4 May 2022
Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€10,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD)
- Decided
- 4 May 2022
- Country
- Belgium
- Sector
- Transportation and Energy
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2022/BE/005
What happened
The Belgian DPA fined the Belgian National Railway €10,000 because it sent an unsolicited advertisement email with no opt-out option to customers.
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. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject12(2)Read →
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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