(Data Protection News & Services)
On May 14, 2020, the Belgian Data Protection Authority imposed a €50,000 fine on an international dating website (“dating platform” or the “company”) for lack of legal basis of the data processing operations carried out to provide an “invite a friend” feature.
In particular, it considered that consent of non-users of the dating platform was necessary before letting the user send them invitation emails.
Since the beginning of 2020, the Supervisory Authorities across the European Union have issued several fines on companies breaching the provisions of the GDPR or national marketing laws. The main decisions are as follows: – Italy: two fines of respectively €11,5
The Italian Supervisory Authority served two fines of EUR 8.5 and 3 million on Eni Gas and Luce (Egl), an Italian electricity and gas supplier. The first fine sanctions illicit processing of personal data in the context of promotional activities
On november 21 2019, the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) issued a €500,000 fine against FUTURA INTERNATIONALE, for various breaches of the GDPR and, in particular, for breaching the individuals’ right to opt-out of marketing calls. The CNIL justified