Newspaper

€10,000

Insufficient legal basis for data processing

Decision Date

1 de janeiro de 2019

Authority

Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner

CY

Sector

Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting

Country

CY

Law

GDPR

Status

FINAL

Description

The publication of the newspaper, both in hard copy and in electronic form, allegedly involved inconvenience, unnecessary and unlawful detention of a citizen, and revealed the names and pictures of the two police investigators involved, as well as the photograph of a third police investigator. The Commissioner considered that the aim could be achieved by referring only to the initials of their name and/or their faces being blurred and/or publishing photographs drawn from a distant distance so that it was impossible to identify the persons, and these actions would not bring any change in the nature of the case.

Legal Citations

Art. 6

Issues & Violations

Insufficient legal basis for data processing

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