Fine against Ikea

The Ikea company had to pay a fine of € 500,- because the sent out marketing text-messages (sms) without an opportunity to stop the advertising free-of-charge. This was a Violation of Paragraph 12 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Entscheidungsdatum:
04.07.2018

Land:
Cyprus

Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing

Betroffene Datensätze:
unknown

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 500,-

Violation of GDPR Paragraph:

12. Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject

Quelle: