Penalty against Sigma Live Ltd

Penalty against Sigma Live Ltd

The news portal Sigma Live was fined €5,000 in Cyprus after a private individual complained to the data protection authority.

In an article about a whistleblower, the media company had shown pictures of the person concerned, giving the impression that he was the whistleblower in question.

The authority examined this circumstance and convicted the company of violations of the General Data Protection Regulation, as the company had no legal basis to process the personal data.

Entscheidungsdatum:
12.04.2019

Land:
Cyprus

Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing

Betroffene Datensätze:
1

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 5,000,-

Quelle:
Decision of the Cyprus Data Protection Authority (Cypriot)