Inadmissible inspection of land register for offer to purchase building land
Within the scope of his professional authority, the recipient of the fine had access to the electronic land register in the automated retrieval procedure. In doing so, he identified several hundred property owners in 2 cases without their knowledge and passed the information on to an unnamed contractor. The latter then contacted the property owners to make them an offer to buy.
The contractor also received a fine of 50,000 euros, which was imposed by the LfDI Baden-Württemberg.
Entscheidungsdatum:
21.09.2022
Land:
Germany
Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing
Betroffene Datensätze:
unknown
Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No
verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 5,000,-