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APD/GBA (Belgium) · Date not published

Cellphone number provider

About: Accountability, Data breach, Data principles, Data security

Fine€25,000Violation found
Regulator
APD/GBA (Belgium)
Decided
Date not published
Country
Belgium
Sector
Not given
Regulator’s reference
05/2021
Fino case number
ND/BE/002
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What happened

The Belgian DPA (APD/GBA) held that sharing a phone number poses a high risk to a data subject and that this must be classified as a critical data breach, even if it concerns just one person and for a very short time.

Summary from GDPRhub (noyb), written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Rules involved

  • Accountability
  • Data breach
  • Data principles
  • Data security

Sources

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