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Vodafone España pays Spanish GDPR fine over illegal call forwarding

( August 1, 2023, 14:30 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Vodafone España has paid a fine of 56,000 euros imposed by the Spanish Data Protection Agency for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. The data subject claimed that a Vodafone employee had, without consent, forwarded calls and SMSs from his or her phone number to an unknown and unauthorized number, which subsequently caused a bank fraud, the regulator said. The company had failed to properly identify an unauthorized person who had made a forwarding request, the regulator said. The initial fine amounted to 70,000 euros, but it was reduced after Vodafone agreed to make a voluntary payment....

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