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Italy's Fastweb fined EUR 4.5 mln for telemarketing breaches

Tuesday 6 April 2021 | 09:30 CET | News
Italy's data protection authority, Garante Privacy, has fined Fastweb a total of EUR 4.5 million for overly aggressive telemarketing tactics in the manner it handled the personal data of millions of customers. After conducting an investigation following hundreds of complaints from users who said they had not consented to calls, the watchdog accused the operator of breaching privacy rules by failing to supervise call centre use of fictitious numbers that aren't listed in the Register of Communication Operators to cold call customers and for failing to correctly manage contact lists, among

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Companies: Fastweb
Countries: Italy
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