DoctorPrivate person

What happened

The DPA fined a doctor €15,000 for sending election advertisements to patients in violation of the principles of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency of data processing.

Summary from GDPRhub (noyb), 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) · 6(4)Read →
• Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal data9(1) · 9(2)Read →
• Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject12(2)Read →
• Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
• Art. 14Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subjectRead →

• Data principles
• Special categories
• Transparency
• Unlawful processing