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Telemarketing: The Data Protection Authority sanctions a company for over 2 million euros
- 25/06/2019
In its latest newsletter (no. 453 of 30 May 2019) the Data Protection Authority announced that it had imposed a penalty of over 2 million euros on a company that had carried out, through a foreign call center, telemarketing and teleselling activities on behalf of a company operating in the energy industry, in brach of the provisions on the protection of personal data in force before the European Regulation.
The Guardia di Finanza, a special privacy unit, following an inspection, had ascertained that the company, indeed, in addition to not having provided any information, had not requested any consent for the processing of personal data for marketing purposes.
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