Fine against Sigma Live Ltd

Fine against Sigma Live Ltd

The company Sigma Live Ldt. was fined under GDPR because of illegal data processing.

Sigma Live Ldt. is a news portal and published a video about a crime. In this, a whistleblower, which helped to arrest the criminal, was mentioned. The company showed pictures of a person, therefore people could think that he was the whistleblower.

Because of this action the shown person complained at the cyprus data protection authority, which started investigating and fined the company

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: