Michael Page gets €225,000 Italian GDPR fine over former staff emails
( October 7, 2026, 09:52 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Recruitment firm Michael Page International Italia was fined €225,000 by Italy’s privacy regulator under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, for retaining three former employees’ work email accounts for years and examining their correspondence for litigation. The regulator also found that the company had not adequately informed the employees about the processing.The decision is attached in Italian. ...
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