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Danish Royal Theater faces fine over misusing customer data

The Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Photo: Athanasios Gioumpasis/Getty Images

The theater had no procedures to delete customer data for marketing use.

The Royal Theater, Det Kongelige Teater, in Copenhagen, Denmark, has been reported to the police for not having appropriate procedures to delete customer data for marketing purposes.

The Danish Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, which made the report, found that the theater stored information on approximately 520,000 customers and newsletter recipients for