Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality fined for personal data failures

At least 1,000 former employees continued to access a system with personal data after their employment ended.

Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality in Denmark has been fined DKr 350,000 – 400,000 ($49,439 – $56,501) for failing to comply with its obligation as data controller to implement proper security measures in several cases. Most seriously it failed to delete access for former employees to its system, which contained personal data of about 30,000 citizens.

Datatilsynet, the

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