DSB (Austria) · 19 January 2026
Digital marketing agency
Name not published.
About: Data principles, Transparency, Unlawful processing
What happened next. Not final: the fined party appealed to the Federal Administrative Court (BVwG), only against the amount; the case is pending. Source →
- Regulator
- DSB (Austria)
- Decided
- 19 January 2026
- Country
- Austria
- Sector
- Not given
- Regulator’s reference
- 2025-1.049.138
- Fino case number
- 2026/AT/008
What happened
The DPA fined a digital marketing agency €25,500 for recording and indefinitely storing applicants’ phone interviews without a valid legal basis or telling them about the recording and the identity of the actual controller.
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)(c) · 5(1)(e)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)(a) · 6(1)(f)Read →
- Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subjectRead →
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject13(1)(d)Read →
- Data principles
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
The facts on this page come from the sources above, as they recorded them. Nothing has been estimated or filled in. Not legal advice.
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