Polish National Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) · 17 March 2025
Minister of Digital Affairs
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€23,500Fine issued
- Regulator
- Polish National Personal Data Protection Office (UODO)
- Decided
- 17 March 2025
- Country
- Poland
- Sector
- Public Sector and Education
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2025/PL/015
What happened
The DPA fined the Polish Minister of Digitalisation PLN 100,000 (€23,448,50) and the Polish Post S.A. PLN 27,124,816 (€6,444,174) for unlawfully processing the personal data of ca. 30 million citizens in order to facilitate postal voting in a general election.
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(1)(a)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Data principles
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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