Fine against Bisnode Polska

Fine against Bisnode Polska

Bisnode is an economic database. In the course of the duty to inform, the company has informed only a fraction of the persons concerned. All those affected who did not have an e-mail address were only informed via the website because, according to the company, anything else would have been too much effort.

The Polish data protection authority did not share this opinion and fined the company for deliberately violating the GDPR. In the justification, it was stated, among other things, that of the 90,000 data subjects who were informed, approximately 12,000 objected to further processing of the personal data.

The fine does not exempt the company from the obligation to inform, but it must inform them anyway

Entscheidungsdatum:
26.03.2019

Land:
Poland

Art des Verstoßes:
violated duty to inform

Betroffene Datensätze:
5 700 000

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 220,000,-

Quelle:
Press release of the Polish data protection authority UODO (English)