Fine against bank from germany
If a customer terminated the business relationship with the bank, his / her data was blacklisted. If you try to open an account, the data will be compared with this blacklist and if there is a match, you are not able to open the account.
This is an illegal data processing according to GDPR. The company was fined € 50,000. According to its own statements, the company has introduced this practice due to anti-money laundering requirements.
Entscheidungsdatum:
01.01.2019
Land:
Germany
Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing
Betroffene Datensätze:
unknown
Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No
verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 50,000,-
Violation of GDPR Paragraph:
22. Automated individual decision-making, including profiling
6. Lawfulness of processing
Quelle: