Company – €5,000 Fine (Germany, 2021)
General GDPR enforcement action
This case relates to broader data protection obligations, not specifically to cookie or consent banner compliance. It is not included in cookie statistics or the Risk Calculator.
A company in Germany was fined for not deleting a video featuring a complainant, even after being asked by both the complainant and the data protection authority. This case matters because it shows that companies must act promptly on data deletion requests. The company initially removed the video from its website but not from social media.
What happened
The company published a video featuring a complainant without consent and delayed in deleting it from all platforms.
Who was affected
The individual who appeared in the video and requested its deletion.
What the authority found
The authority fined the company for failing to promptly delete the video from all platforms, violating data protection rules.
Why this matters
This ruling emphasizes that companies must take data deletion requests seriously and ensure complete removal from all platforms. It highlights the need for robust processes to manage such requests efficiently.
The DPA of Brandenburg has imposed a fine on a company. An individual had filed a complaint with the DPA based on the fact that the company produced a video recording in which the complainant could be seen. The complainant then contacted the company and asked it to delete the video and to refrain from publishing it on the Internet. Nevertheless, the company published the video on its website as well as on several social networks. Moreover, even when the DPA asked the company to delete the video, the company only deleted the video from its website, but not from the social networks. Only after the DPA demanded the company to delete the video again, did the company actually comply and deleted the video from the social networks as well.
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Fine
€5K
Details
Fine Date
1 January 2021
Authority
Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz
Fine Amount
€5,000
Enforcement Tracker ID
ETid-1225
About this data
Cite as: Cookie Fines. Company - Germany (2021). Retrieved from cookiefines.eu
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