Vodafone Spain fined record $9.72M for data protection failures
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Neil Hodge2021-03-15T20:56:00
Vodafone Spain has been fined €8.15 million (U.S. $9.72 million) for aggressive telemarketing tactics and other data protection failures under the GDPR. The penalty is the highest the Spanish Data Protection Agency has handed out.
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