Fine against insurance company

Fine against insurance company

An insurance company from Cyprus tried to expand its customer base via telemarketing. Since they had no telephone numbers, software was used, which randomly generated telephone numbers. The company sent text messages (sms) to these telephone numbers.

A total of eight people complained at the local data protection authority, so a investigation was initiated. In the process, the company justified its approach. Since the phone numbers were randomly generated, they are not personal data.

The regulator denied the insurance company’s view and fined it € 4,000 for illegal data processing. It was clarified that also randomly generated data sets are considered as personal data, as in this case the subscriber can be clearly identified.

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Entscheidungsdatum:
13.03.2019

Land:
Cyprus

Art des Verstoßes:
Illegal data processing

Betroffene Datensätze:
8

Waren sensible Daten betroffen?:
No

verhängte Geldstrafe:
€ 4,000,-

Quelle: