Data Protection Authority of Ireland · 19 January 2023
WhatsApp Ireland Ltd.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€5,500,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Ireland
- Decided
- 19 January 2023
- Country
- Ireland
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2023/IE/006
What happened
Following a complaint filed by a German Whatsapp user, the Irish DPA found Whatsapp IE’s processing of personal data for “service improvements” and “security” to be unlawful, and fined the company €5,500,000.
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 subjectRead →
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject13(1)(c)Read →
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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