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Property development company – €50,000 Fine (Germany, 2022)
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A property development company was fined EUR 50,000 for contacting property owners without informing them how it obtained their data. The company used information from a surveyor who accessed the land register without the owners' knowledge. This ruling stresses the importance of transparency in data collection.
What happened
The German DPA fined a property development company for failing to disclose the source of data when contacting property owners.
Who was affected
Property owners who were contacted by the company without being informed about the origin of their data.
What the authority found
The DPA determined that the company violated GDPR by not providing information on how it obtained the property owners' data.
Why this matters
This case highlights the need for businesses to be transparent about their data sources. Companies must inform individuals about how their data is collected to comply with privacy regulations.
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The DPA of Baden-Württemberg has imposed a fine of EUR 50,000 on a property development company. The company had sent a letter to a property owner in which it made a purchase price offer for their property. The letter did not contain any information on the origin of the data. Even after the owner asked the company where the data had been obtained, the company did not reply. In the course of its investigation, the DPA discovered that a surveyor had made use of his authority to inspect the electronic land register and, in two cases, had identified several hundred property owners without their knowledge. Subsequently, the surveyor had passed the relevant information to the company, which contacted the property owners. The DPA considered this to be, on the one hand, a violation of Art. 6 (1) GDPR and, on the other hand, a violation of Art. 14 GDPR due to the lack of information on the origin of the data.
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Details
Fine Date
21 September 2022
Authority
Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz
Fine Amount
€50,000
Enforcement Tracker ID
ETid-1399
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Cite as: Cookie Fines. Property development company - Germany (2022). Retrieved from cookiefines.eu
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