Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 20 June 2024
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Non-compliance with general data processing principles
Fine€1,000,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 20 June 2024
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2024/IT/001
What happened
The DPA fined a telecommunication provider €1,000,000 after it contacted data subjects for marketing purposes without valid consent. The DPA held that a controller cannot rely on legitimate interest to perform marketing phone calls to its clients.
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(2)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processingRead →
- Art. 7Conditions for consentRead →
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
- Art. 15Right of access by the data subjectRead →
- Art. 16Right to rectificationRead →
- Art. 17Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)Read →
- Art. 18Right to restriction of processingRead →
- Art. 19Notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processingRead →
- Art. 20Right to data portabilityRead →
- Art. 21Right to objectRead →
- Art. 22Automated individual decision-making, including profilingRead →
- Art. 24Responsibility of the controller24(1)Read →
- Art. 25Data protection by design and by defaultRead →
- Accountability
- Consent
- Data principles
- Data subject rights
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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