Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 10 April 2025
Acea Energia S.p.A.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€3,000,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 10 April 2025
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Transportation and Energy
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2025/IT/073
What happened
The DPA fined an energy provider €3,000,000 for unlawful telemarketing practices. The controller failed to watch over the processing which resulted in the engagement of a sub-processor without a data processing agreement conducting the illegal practices.
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 processingRead →
- Art. 7Conditions for consentRead →
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
- Art. 24Responsibility of the controllerRead →
- Art. 25Data protection by design and by defaultRead →
- Art. 28ProcessorRead →
- Art. 32Security of processingRead →
- Accountability
- Consent
- Data security
- Processor obligations
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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