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Decisions made by the data protection authority of Germany

09/08/2021

open contact details

A German restaurateur had a list on which his guests had to register in order to track possible COVID-19 infection chains. However, this contact list was open and visible to everyone. On the basis of this, the data protection authority imposed a fine of 100 euros.

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany

04/08/2021

Video surveillance of employees customers and passers-by

A restaurateur in Germany had installed too many video cameras in his restaurant, which unlawfully captures his customers, employees and the area around the premises during opening hours. He was also unable to justify this extensive monitoring to the data protection authority.

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany

04/08/2021

Police database abused for private purposes

A policeman had repeatedly used the police database for private purposes. With these queries, he wanted to get information about people around him (e.g. ex-girlfriends or neighbors) He received a fine of 600 euros due to this offense.

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany

04/08/2021

advertising calls without consent

The call center kikXXL GmbH was commissioned by various companies from a wide variety of industries to make advertising calls. However, there was no mutual consent for this. As a result, many of those affected complained to the company. However, this did not stop the call center from continuing to make these unwanted advertising calls.

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany

04/08/2021

Online shop with outdated software

The Lower Saxony data protection authority found in investigations against the company out that it uses an outdated version of xt:Commerce, which has not been supplied with security updates since 2014. Among other things, the software still uses the hash function MD5, which has not been in line with current security standards for several years…. […]

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany

28/07/2021

Company refuses access to data protection authority

In an unannounced on-site inspection, a German company refused access to its premises. The Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision then imposed a fine of EUR 20,000. After the accused filed an objection to this fine, it was lowered to EUR 7,000.

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany

22/07/2020

Data protection warnings defused in Germany

Even before GDPR, many german lawyers sent out chargeable warning letters about small mistakes. With this law, the German federal government wants to protect small businesses and online shops in particular from high cost due to chargeable warning letters. Websites suffered automatic crawling to find minimal errors in the imprint or data protection notices. Chargeable… […]

Category iconGDPR Decisions,  Germany,  News

23/01/2020

Fine due to not naming a DPO

The SME Radidata GmbH (Germany) was fined 10.000 EUR for not naming a Data Protection Officer (DPO). In Germany a DPO is needed as soon 20 employees work with personal data. The data protection Authority requested Rapidata to name a DPO several times but was ignored. The fine takes into account that Rapidata is a… […]

Category iconGDPR fines,  Germany,  News

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