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Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by henrikschroder »

droithomme wrote: post #18
donretag wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

The same link mentions issuing a GDPR reprimand against a person for using a security camera inside their own home .

It's not the GDPR that made this illegal. It was most probably illegal before the GDPR, and it was probably enforced by the same agency that now enforces GDPR. The GDPR is an umbrella that covers all the new things it introduced, but also a lot of old things the various national data privacy agencies covered.

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Post by oh_sigh »

mtw wrote: post #17
donretag wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

Actually he was lucky. Austrian law says the fine should be €10,000. It is not legal to own or to use a dashcam in Austria, like in a few other European countries

Not true. You can have a dash cam, but it has to be the kind that continuously overwrites its own data and only records when it detects an accident. You can also record based on your intent - if your intent is to, say, capture a scenic drive ,then you can do that. If your intent is to just capture the license plates of 1000s of other cars that pass you, you can't do that.

These laws were changed in ~2018 in Austria.

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Post by detaro »

droithomme wrote: post #18
donretag wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

The same link mentions issuing a GDPR reprimand against a person for using a security camera inside their own home .

Where does it say that? The linked article says "recordings of their house", which very well could e.g. be a camera on the outside, capturing surrounding public space.

(also probably existing law, not GDPR specifically: video surveillance has been fairly strictly regulated for a while)

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Post by AnssiH »

mtw wrote: post #17
donretag wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

Actually he was lucky. Austrian law says the fine should be €10,000. It is not legal to own or to use a dashcam in Austria, like in a few other European countries

According to this 2013 news article it is "up to €10,000": https://helpv2.orf.at/stories/1717004/index.html

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by hartator »

rococode wrote: post #30
throwaway13337 wrote: post #3

Wow. Here's an crazy one: Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany. "The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offen…

Different take: This is exactly what GDPR was designed for. It just hasn't been "weaponized" enough yet to have the bandwidth to deal with every situation, so situations like these seem like targeted attacks when in reality they're precisely what GDPR is supposed to deal with. I personally think ~$15 per leaked email is a reasonable fine. I bet this guy and everyone else who reads this article won't accidentally leak…

The thing is if this was a civil case you have to prove some damages had be done by the leak. A random person leaking my email in CC - that happens a lot - is not even necessarily annoying but for sure don't cause any damages.

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by hvhsb »

inetknght wrote: post #33
hvhsb wrote: post #10

Germany and this ridiculous requirement: http://www.enforcementtracker.com/?imprint If you put a website online you've got to put all your personal information in it.

What's ridiculous about that?

Everybody can stalk you if they don't like what you've published for example.

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by Rockslide »

g_sch wrote: post #11

Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising, but what this site makes clear to me is that GDPR enforcement is more lax on major companies than many people expected, and more severe on private individuals. For all the breathless reporting of how GDPR would ruin companies financially by levying fines on worldwide revenue, there is exactly one fine listed that exceeds 400k EUR. Granted, it's 50MM EUR to Google, but that's stil…

Except that of course it wasn't about "using Cc instead of Bcc in emails" but using CC instead of BCC in mailing lists with hundreds of recipients and also not about "using a dashcam" but using a dashcam illegally, which in itself can imply a much higher fine in some European countries regardless of GDPR. So not as benign as you are trying to make it sound.

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by Aengeuad »

nickjj wrote: post #16
ferongr wrote: post #2

The fact that someone was fined for using a dashcam is beyond absurd.

I wonder where the line is drawn when it comes to things like that. Yesterday I was walking on the side of the road and some girl was half way hanging out of the passenger window recording a video of the scenery. I was able to see her from a few hundred feet away. Eventually the car intersected with me and I was in the line of sight of the video for a second or 2. Of course I made a stupid pose to photo bomb her vide…

The line is drawn at surveillance of a public place [0] and in this instance only in Austria, as other commentors have pointed out the laws may have changed in 2018 to allow for dashcams that continuously overwrite old footage but I can't verify that. It is not illegal to make recordings in a public place in Austria, although you may have some limitations on what you can do with that footage if it captured other people and those limitations may change depending on what was captured (i.e., whether it was incidental, or footage of a crowd).

In Germany for instance dashcams are perfectly legal, you only have conditions on what you can do with that footage afterwards, for instance posting it on Youtube or social media is a big no-no, and unlike Austria you're likely to get a warning in Germany instead of a fine [1].

[0] https://helpv2.orf.at/stories/1717004/index.html

[1] https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000092017999/erst-vier-str...

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