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Cegedim Santé fined €800,000 for processing health data unlawfully

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The data was found to be pseudonymous – not anonymous – making it possible to re-identify the people concerned.

CNIL has fined Cegedim Santé €800,000 ($886,809) for processing health data without authorization. The French Data Protection Authority said that the fine reflects the “seriousness of the breaches, the massive nature of the processing and the fact that the data concerned is health data, and therefore sensitive data.”

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