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Spain: Data Protection Agency sanctions

01 September 1998

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The Spanish Data Protection Agency imposed fines totalling 1,296 million pesetas in 1997, arising from 202 disciplinary actions during the year, mainly concerned with credit reference and direct mail firms. These figures are up by 125% on the preceding year, and there has also been an increase in the number of registrations under the data protection law, the total reaching 237,228. One of the more notable sanctions involved the state telecoms operator, Telefonica, fined 50 million pesetas for supplying data to its subsidiary TPI; the latter was in turn fined 60 million for processing personal data without consent and making it available to third parties. In the current year Telefonica has again been penalised, with a 30 million peseta fine for misleading subscribers about the personal data held on them.

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