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It was only a 1400 Eur fine, as it was a first offense a there was only one affected person. But misuse of the available databases for fun and personal gain se
by w-m 7y ago
It was only a 1400 Eur fine, as it was a first offense a there was only one affected person.
But misuse of the available databases for fun and personal gain seems to be quite rampant in the police force, for example they looked up the personal data of a pop star during the night of a concert 83 times recently [1].
Will be interesting to see whether some guards will be put in place (and more officers fined) to combat this behavior.
[1] https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/lfdi-baden-wuerttemberg-verhaengt-erstes-bussgeld-gegen-polizeibeamten/ https://www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de/lfdi-baden-wue...
- ljf 7y agoI'd be happy to see £1000 fine per user impacted!
- FDSGSG 7y agoThis is a standard practice by police forces everywhere. I'd be surprised if there was a single police force in the world with strong audit controls on the usage of their DBs.
- w-m 7y agoPosted the link on the fine above by mistake, here’s the one about the pop star (German as well): https://www.golem.de/news/datenmissbrauch-hessens-polizisten-fragen-nicht-nur-daten-von-promis-ab-1908-142961.html https://www.golem.de/news/datenmissbrauch-hessens-polizisten...