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Unknown – €50,000 Fine (Belgium, 2020)
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A parking ticket control company in Belgium was fined EUR 50,000 for not properly informing a person about their parking fine. The company failed to provide a clear privacy policy and did not respond to the person's request for information about their data. This case highlights the importance of transparency and communication for companies handling personal data.
What happened
A parking ticket control company failed to provide a proper privacy policy and did not respond to a person's request for information about their data.
Who was affected
A person who received a parking fine but did not get the initial notice and later requested information about their personal data.
What the authority found
The Belgian Data Protection Authority found that the company violated several GDPR provisions, including failing to provide a proper privacy policy and not responding to the person's data request.
Why this matters
This ruling emphasizes that companies must be clear about how they handle personal data and respond to requests for information. Businesses should ensure they have proper privacy policies and communication channels in place.
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The Belgian DPA (APD) imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on a company for several violations of the GDPR. The controller is a company that carries out parking ticket controls. The controller controller had issued the data subject a fine for illegal parking. However, the data subject states that he or she did not receive the fine ticket. Instead, the data subject only found out about it when he or she received an official reminder letter from a law firm commissioned with debt collection, which then demanded payment of the reminder fee in addition to the original fine. The data subject then contacted the company and demanded, among others, information about which of his/her personal data had been processed. After this request was not properly fulfilled in a timely manner, the data subject filed a complaint against the controller During its investigations the DPA discovered that the controller violated several GDPR provisions. Firstly the DPA found that the controller failed to provide a proper privacy policy. The privacy policy on the controller´s website did not contain any information regarding the processing of personal data nor any contact information of the company. Secondly, the controller violated the data subject's right to information by failing to comply with the data subject's request for information on data processing. Lastly the controller infringed the principle of minimasation by processing the data subject's data for the purpose of sending a payment reminder only one day after the ticket had been issued even though the data subject had the opportunity to pay the fine without such a reminder at that time.
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Fine
€50K
Details
Fine Date
23 December 2020
Authority
Autorité de Protection des Données
Fine Amount
€50,000
About this data
Cite as: Cookie Fines. Unknown - Belgium (2020). Retrieved from cookiefines.eu
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