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GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by throwaway13337 »

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 offences between mid-July and the end of July 2018. According to the authority's letter, between 131 and 153 personal mail addresses were identifiable in his mailing list."

Poor guy.

This seems to be proof that the GDPR is being weaponized against people and organizations one doesn't like.

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by phh »

To whoever did this: thanks!

Such a website can have many uses:

  - Show the average people why privacy is important with concrete examples
  - Find previous rulings for people in a specific situation
  - Stop(reduce.) the "there is no way we're going to be sued for that" by the company's managers
My wish for that website is that in the future, the data is more easily readable and "big-data exploitable" (good luck with that)

Little things I can tell on the top of my head:

  - the height of the fines is basically random, that makes scrolling cognitively heavy imo. Having (...) to click to expand long descriptions sounds fair I think
  - it's not possible to link to a row (useful for giving examples to people)
  - long descriptions deserve multiple paragraphs, they are hard to read as-is.
Also, I think negative rulings would be useful as well, though could send a different political message, so that's author's choice.

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by hvhsb »

donretag wrote: post #4
ferongr wrote: post #2

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

"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.

What's insane, the fact that you can't just go around recording people and cars?

Re: GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Post by DanBC »

ferongr wrote: post #2

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

1) We don't know much. GDPR allows processing if it's for purely personal use, so if he's putting it on youtube with ads that takes it out of purely personal use.

2) As the linked news article says, Austria may be getting the balance between cautions and fines wrong, which is why they may face a case in EU.

> In Germany, for example, people use caution instead of punishment - which is why Austria may face an EU case.

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