Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) · 29 January 2026
DoctorPrivate person
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€5,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante)
- Decided
- 29 January 2026
- Country
- Italy
- Sector
- Health Care
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2026/IT/001
What happened
The DPA fined a doctor €5,000 for unlawfully disclosing a patient's health data by publishing photos relating to a surgical procedure on a social media platform that were not effectively anonymized, and the consent obtained was invalid.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Special categories
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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