Municipality – €5,000 Fine (Greece, 2023)
General GDPR enforcement action
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A municipality in Greece published a person's personal data on its website and did not delete it when asked. The Hellenic Data Protection Authority fined the municipality EUR 5,000 for this mistake. This case highlights the importance of respecting people's requests for their data to be removed.
What happened
The municipality published personal data on its website and failed to delete it upon request.
Who was affected
A person whose personal data was published without their consent.
What the authority found
The authority found that the municipality violated GDPR's requirement to delete personal data when requested.
Why this matters
This ruling emphasizes that municipalities must take data privacy seriously and respond to deletion requests. Other organizations should ensure they have processes in place to handle such requests properly.
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The Hellenic DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 5,000 on a municipality. The municipality had published a person's personal data on the municipality's website and failed to comply with the data subject's request for deletion.
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Details
Fine Date
7 November 2023
Authority
Hellenic Data Protection Authority
Fine Amount
€5,000
About this data
Cite as: Cookie Fines. Municipality - Greece (2023). Retrieved from cookiefines.eu
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