Record fine
The Spanish Data Protection Agency fines Caixabank 6 million euros following complaints from FACUA and a customer of the bank
The AEPD has confirmed that the bank has been in breach of three articles of the General Data Protection Act.
FACUA.org
España-15/01/2021
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD, according to its initials in Spanish) has sanctioned Caixabank with two fines of 4 and 2 million euros for breaching the General Data Protection
Act (GDPA). The resolution follows a complaint from a customer of the bank in 2018 and another filed by FACUA-Consumers in Action in 2019.
To this date, the three highest fines imposed by governmental bodies on companies reported by FACUA are the 6.23 million that the Junta de Andalucía (regional government) imposed on Movistar in 2016 for raising its Fusión deal tariffs after advertising that it would keep the same prices «forever«; the
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