Data Protection Authority of Sweden (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten) · 26 January 2022
Uppsala hospital board
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€152,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Sweden (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten)
- Decided
- 26 January 2022
- Country
- Sweden
- Sector
- Health Care
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2022/SE/002
What happened
The Swedish DPA imposed a fine of approximately €150,000 on a hospital for a violation of Articles 5(1)(f) and 32(1) GDPR by emailing unencrypted medical records to patients and hospitals abroad.
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)(f)Read →
- Art. 32Security of processing32(1)Read →
- Data principles
- Data security
Sources
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