Lejre Municipality – €6,700 Fine (Denmark, 2020)
General GDPR enforcement action
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Denmark's data protection authority fined Lejre Municipality €6,700 for improperly sharing sensitive meeting minutes on a portal accessible to all employees. This serves as a reminder to ensure that only authorized personnel can access sensitive information.
What happened
Lejre Municipality uploaded sensitive meeting minutes to a portal accessible by all employees, regardless of their involvement in the cases.
Who was affected
Citizens, including minors, whose sensitive personal data was included in the meeting minutes.
What the authority found
The authority fined Lejre Municipality for failing to protect sensitive data and not informing affected individuals about the breach, violating GDPR Articles 5, 6, 33, and 34.
Why this matters
This case highlights the importance of restricting access to sensitive data and promptly notifying individuals of data breaches to comply with GDPR.
GDPR Articles Cited
The data protection authority had found that the Lejre Municipal Child and Youth Centre had regularly uploaded minutes of meetings with particularly sensitive and sensitive personal data, including on citizens under 18 years of age, to the Lejre Municipal Personnel Portal, which was accessible to employees of the Lejre Municipality, regardless of whether the employees in question were working with these cases. In addition, the data protection authority denied the failure to comply with the obligation to inform the persons concerned of the data breach.
Related Enforcement Actions (0)
No other enforcement actions found for Lejre Municipality in DK
This is the only recorded action for this entity in this jurisdiction.
Details
Fine Date
30 June 2020
Authority
Datatilsynet (Denmark)
Fine Amount
€6,700
Enforcement Tracker ID
ETid-319
About this data
Cite as: Cookie Fines. Lejre Municipality - Denmark (2020). Retrieved from cookiefines.eu
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