Bank
€1,560
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
Decision Date
February 8, 2019
Authority
Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH)
HU
Sector
Finance, Insurance and Consulting
Country
BG
Law
GDPRStatus
FINALDescription
A bank mistakenly sent SMS messages about a subject's credit card debt to the telephone number of another person. After receiving an incorrect telephone number from the client at the time of contracting, the bank did not comply with the data subject's request to erase the data and continued to send SMS message to the incorrect telephone number. The fine represents 0.0016% of the annual profit of the bank.
Legal Citations
Art. 5 (1)
Issues & Violations
Non-compliance with general data processing principles