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Credit information provider company faces EUR440,000 Finnish GDPR fine

( March 2, 2023, 14:43 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Suomen Asiakastieto, a company providing consumer credit information services, has been fined 440,000 euros by the Finnish Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman for failing to comply with the regulator's earlier order to remove incorrect payment default data from the credit information register. In 2021, the watchdog probed the company's processing of data on payment default information based on legally binding judgments, which it found to violate Articles 6 and 5.1(a) of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, and ordered the controller to remove incorrect data and change the processing practices, the regulator said. The company can appeal the decision at the administrative court, the watchdog said.Statement follows in Finnish. The decision is attached in Finnish. ...

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