Restaurant – €170 Fine (Germany, 2021)

€170Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz1 January 2021Germany
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In order to identify a guest who had not paid, several visitors were contacted by employees of a restaurant. For this purpose, the telephone numbers provided by the guests as part of the Covid contact tracing tracing were used. Since the guests had provided their data solely for infection control purposes, the DPA considered the contacting for the purpose of identifying the guest to be a violation of the principle of purpose limitation (Art. 5 (1) b) GDPR).

GDPR Articles Cited

Art. 5(1)(b) GDPR
Full Legal Summary

In order to identify a guest who had not paid, several visitors were contacted by employees of a restaurant. For this purpose, the telephone numbers provided by the guests as part of the Covid contact tracing tracing were used. Since the guests had provided their data solely for infection control purposes, the DPA considered the contacting for the purpose of identifying the guest to be a violation of the principle of purpose limitation (Art. 5 (1) b) GDPR).

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Current
Jan 2021

Fine

€170

Details

Fine Date

1 January 2021

Authority

Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz

Fine Amount

€170

Enforcement Tracker ID

ETid-1209

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