Data protection breach with e-mail use

Data protection breach in e-mail use based on case studies

1st case CC instead of BCC

If you send an e-mail to several recipients and the recipients can see each other (CC and not BCC), this would be a data protection violation if the e-mails are not publicly discoverable with first and last name in the address.

Procedure:

Report data protection incident to competent data protection authority and apologize to recipients

2nd case the wrong recipient

When sending a E-mail with content containing personal data is a wrong recipient, a data protection violation.

Procedure:

Report data protection incident to the competent data protection authority, as well as apologize to recipients and data subjects.