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Finnish DPO fines Posti €2.4m for GDPR violations with electronic mailbox

elivery truck of the Posti group, the main Finnish postal service parked on the street in winter.
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Martina Lindberg

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The company allegedly illegally processed customer data when creating a new electronic mailbox for two million customers that haven’t requested the service.

Posti Jakelu Oy (Posti) has been ordered to pay a €2.4m ($2.5m) fine by the Sanctions Board of the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman (DPO) for breaching GDPR with its Omaposti (Posti’s app for parcels and letters) service.

According to the DPO (Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto) Posti created electronic mailboxes for about

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