Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 29 April 2025
Municipality of Bologna
Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security
Fine€40,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 29 April 2025
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2025/IT/045
What happened
The municipality of Bologna accidentally forwarded a document with the names of special needs students and information about their health to unauthorized staff as well as 53 families. The DPA fined the municipality €40,000.
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Rules involved
The source doesn’t list which GDPR articles were involved.
- Data security
Sources
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