Altius Insurance Ltd
- Country
- Cyprus
- Fine
- 4,000 EUR
- Date
- 2019-03-13
- Sector
- Insurance Company
- Articles
- Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR
Unauthorised SMS advertising material sent to non-customers.
The DPA received 8 complaints from people claiming to have received SMS messages from Altius Insurance Ltd. without their consent and without prior business relationship with the insurance company. The company reported that the phone numbers used for the broadcast were randomly generated by a software tool. The Commissioner for Personal Data Protection has pointed out that the telephone numbers, even if randomly selected, constitute personal data as soon as their telephone number holder is easily identifiable. Authoriy: Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection Cyprus