Danske Bank fined $1.5M for data processing failures under GDPR
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Neil Hodge2022-04-06T13:40:00
The Danish Data Protection Agency has reported Danske Bank to the police and fined it 10 million Danish kroner (U.S. $1.47 million) over its failure to erase customers’ personal data in its systems in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation.
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