French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) · 13 September 2022
GIE INFOGREFFE
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€250,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)
- Decided
- 13 September 2022
- Country
- France
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2022/FR/005
What happened
The French DPA fined a company €250,000 for infringing Article 5(1)(e) GDPR. It violated the provision by storing personal data for an excessive period of time and by lacking adequate security as passwords were stored without encryption and sent in plain text by email.
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)(e)Read →
- Art. 32Security of processingRead →
- Data principles
- Data security
Sources
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