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Italy: Energy provider violates GDPR

14/06/2019 by

Italy: Energy provider violates GDPR

An energy provider tasked an albanian callcenter with the aquisation of new customers. The callcenter would call persons from their own database. If they showed interest in switching energy provider, the callcenter would transmit their phonenumber and other personal data to the energy company. After that, the energy company would call the potential customer to sign the contract.

Since the GDPR went live on the 25th of May 2018, all companies that are located in, or doing business with, companies in the EU have new rules that they must follow. In this case, the company violated the GDPR, as it failed to notify their customers of the data transfer. In addition, the energy provider did not tell the customers, who the primary data controller for their personal data was. Neither the energy provider nor the callcenter told the customers about their rights regarding GDPR.

The company was found guilty of 78 violations regarding illegal data collection and 155 violations in illegal data processing. These illegal actions where committed in a short period of time. The company had to pay € 2.018.000,-. Even though the base of the judgement was the old data protection law, they are still relevant. The mentioned actions would have also been illegal under the GDPR.

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Entscheidungsdatum:
01.04.2019

Land:
Italy

Art des Verstoßes:
violated duty to inform

Betroffene Datensätze:

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 2,018,000,-

Violation of GDPR Paragraph:

29. Processing under the authority of the controller or processor
5. Principles relating to personal data processing
6. Lawfulness of processing

Quelle:
Pressemitteilung der italienischen Datenschutzbehörde (italienisch)

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