Newspaper

€10K($11K USD)final

Date Issued

2019-03-01

Regulation

Authority

Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner

Country

Cyprus

Violation Type

Non-compliance with lawful basis for data processing

Currency

EUR

Violation Summary

A newspaper was fined €10,000 after it had published both in electronic and physical form the names and pictures of three police investigators. The Cypriot Data Protection Commissioner considered that it would have been enough to publish only the initials of the police officers or photographs from which it would not have been possible to identify the three officials, such as using blurred faces.

Articles Violated

Art. 6 GDPR

Other Fines for Newspaper

DateRegulationAmount (USD)Type
2023-01-16GDPR$7,560Failure to comply with data processing principles
2019-03-01GDPR$10,800Non-compliance with lawful basis for data processing