Italy’s Garante fines Enel Energia over €79m for data privacy violations in telemarketing

The italian data protection watchdog has issued its biggest fine to date.

A record fine of over €79m ($85.4m) has been imposed on Enel Energia over alleged mishandling of numerous electricity and gas supply customers’ personal data for telemarketing purposes. The company, which is a unit of Enel – Italy’s national entity for electricity – allegedly used customers’ personal data in connection with

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