Spotify Fined £4.4 Million in Sweden
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It was a hard blow for Spotify that the Stockholm Court of Appeal confirmed that the company is obliged to pay (fine) 58 million (about 5,300,000 €) of Swedish kronas for penalties for deficiencies in the handling of personal data. This came to light in 2023 after the Swedish Privacy Authority reviewed the management of personal data by the company, in particular how it fulfils the right of users to know what data is collected about them, a corn…
Spotify fined £4.4 million in Sweden
It was a big blow for Spotify when the Stockholm Court of Appeal confirmed that the company is forced to pay (fine) SEK 58 million in penalties for shortcomings in the handling of personal data. This came to light in 2023 after the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection reviewed the company's handling of personal data, in particular how it fulfils the right of users to know what data is being collected about them - a cornerstone of the GDPR. …
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Spotify must pay 58 million Swedish kronor in so-called sanction fees for inadequate handling of personal data.
Spotify must pay a million-sek fine for personal data This is according to a ruling from the Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm, which thus upholds a decision from the Swedish Integrity Protection Authority (IMY) from 2023 – which Spotify had appealed. According to the Swedish court, it is clear that Spotify violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in several ways – including by “not providing in a clear and easily acc…
This is according to a ruling by the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeal, which thus upholds a decision by the Swedish Integritetskyddsmyndigheten (IMY) from 2023 – which Spotify had appealed. According to the Swedish court, it is clear that Spotify violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in several ways – including by “not providing in a clear and easily accessible manner the information necessary for the data subject to …
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