Real estate agent – €5,000 Fine (Germany, 2021)
General GDPR enforcement action
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A real estate agent in Germany was fined for contacting a person about selling their property without permission. The agent failed to explain how they got the person's data and continued to use it even after promising to delete it. This case highlights the importance of respecting people's data rights and having a legal reason to use their information.
What happened
A real estate agent contacted a person to sell their property without their consent and failed to delete their data as promised.
Who was affected
A property owner who was contacted by the real estate agent without having shared their data.
What the authority found
The authority found that the real estate agent processed the person's data without a valid legal basis, violating GDPR rules.
Why this matters
This case serves as a warning to businesses about the importance of having a valid reason to use personal data and respecting requests to delete it. Companies should ensure they comply with data protection laws to avoid fines.
GDPR Articles Cited
The DPA of Brandenburg has imposed a fine on a real estate agent. The real estate agent had contacted an individual and offered him to sell a property he owned. Since the individual himself had not passed on his data to the real estate agent, he asked for information on the origin of the data and for the data to be deleted. The real estate agent informed the data subject that she had deleted the data. However, she did not comply with the data subject's right to access the data. Half a year later, the data subject again received a message from the real estate agent, despite the confirmed deletion of his data. For this reason, the DPA determined that the real estate agent had processed the data of the data subject without a valid legal basis and thus unlawfully.
Related Enforcement Actions (0)
No other enforcement actions found for Real estate agent in DE
This is the only recorded action for this entity in this jurisdiction.
Details
Fine Date
1 January 2021
Authority
Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz
Fine Amount
€5,000
Enforcement Tracker ID
ETid-1229
About this data
Cite as: Cookie Fines. Real estate agent - Germany (2021). Retrieved from cookiefines.eu
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