Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD) · 4 March 2026
ARES CAPITAL, S.A.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€200,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Spanish Data Protection Authority (AEPD)
- Decided
- 4 March 2026
- Country
- Spain
- Sector
- Employment
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2026/ES/018
What happened
The DPA fined a transport services company €200,000 for obliging employees to use four tracking apps on their personal phones for work-related purposes.
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)(c)Read →
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
- Data principles
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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