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Fine against Hotel from Romania

10/07/2019 by

Fine against Hotel from Romania

A hotel in Romania’s capital Bucharest was fined € 15,000, because personal data was processed improperly.

background information

To ensure that only eligible people consume breakfast, the hotel maintains a list of overnight guests. At the entrance of the dining room an employee is standing and marks those persons who have already entered.

Such a list was photographed by company-external persons and published on the Internet. The personal data of 46 guests was written on this list. It is not known what records the list contained, due to the purpose of use it is assumed that the guest’s first and last name, room number and day of arrival and departure are noted. Maybe the date of birth was also mentioned.

The hotel has reported the incident to the Romanian Data Protection Authority.

In the course of the investigation, the authority said that the hotel had taken insufficient technical and organizational measures. The management would not have ensured that employees process personal data only in accordance with legal requirements. Therefore, this heavy fine was imposed.

Conclusion

Only a few days after the first fine in Romania was imposed, the authority publishes another penalty. Especially the amount of the fine surprised. The hotel has reported the data breach in due time. Furthermore, the number of people affected was low and it is expected that no sensitive data (e.g., residential address) was published.

It turns out that the GDPR is handled differently by EU members. For example, in a case of systematic employee monitoring, the French authorities imposed a fine of “only” € 20,000, even though the company was known as a repeat offender.

In the first year after the introduction of the GDPR only few penalties were imposed, in the last weeks and months clearly more penalties became public. On the one hand, the authorities initially allowed leniency, on the other hand, long processing times meant that the investigation took a long time. Entrepreneurs should take data protection seriously. For efficient data protection in your company easyGDPR is the means to an end. At the beginning, you will receive an up-to-date privacy status for your company. Then you can systematically define all the data processings in your company simply by clicking your mouse. [geot country=”GB, HK, TW, MO”]easyGDPR[/geot][geot exclude_country=”GB, HK, TW, MO”]easyGDPR [/geot]automatically creates the mandatory record of processing. The software not only includes classic data protection but also cybersecurity. This is the best way to protect yourself from cybercriminals and protect your business secrets.

Source: Information from Romanian Data Protection Authority

A list of all GDPR fines can be found here

Entscheidungsdatum:
02.07.2019

Land:
Romania

Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing

Betroffene Datensätze:
46

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 15,000,-

Violation of GDPR Paragraph:

32. Security of processing

Quelle:

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