IQVIA Solutions Italy S.r.l.

What happened

The DPA issued a €7 m fine on a controller after a routine inspection of their services uncovered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 3,780 patients’ data. In particular, the DPA held that the data was not sufficiently anonymized not to be personal data and were processed without a legal basis.

Summary from GDPRhub (noyb), written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Rules involved

• Art. 5Principles relating to processing of personal data5(1)(a) · 5(1)(e) · 5(1)(f)Read →
• Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal dataRead →
• Art. 13Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subjectRead →
• Art. 25Data protection by design and by defaultRead →
• Art. 28ProcessorRead →
• Art. 32Security of processingRead →
• Art. 35Data protection impact assessmentRead →

• Accountability
• DPIA
• Data principles
• Data security
• Processor obligations
• Special categories
• Transparency