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Spanish DPA fines CaixaBank record $7.3M under GDPR
By 
Neil Hodge2021-01-25T20:31:00
Spain’s data protection authority recently fined CaixaBank €6 million (U.S. $7.3 million) for misuse of customer data, the largest GDPR fine the country has handed out.
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