PoliticianPrivate person

What happened

The DPA reprimanded a politician for collecting a data subject’s email address from a public source and sending them political marketing, in violation of the principles of lawfulness, purpose limitation and transparency.

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) · 5(1)(b)Read →
• Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject12(1)Read →
• Art. 14Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject14(1) · 14(2)Read →
• Art. 15Right of access by the data subject15(1)(g)Read →

• Data principles
• Data subject rights
• Transparency