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… […]
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… […]