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Finnish online retailer fined €856,000 over GDPR failures

An aerial view of the parking lot of Verkkokauppa.com retailer in Raisio, Finland.
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Webshop Verkkokauppa.com was found to be storing customer account data indefinitely.

Verkkokauppa.com Oyj, a Finnish online retailer, has been fined €856,000 ($930,175) by Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto, the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman, for failing to define the storage period of its customer data.

And in another violation of data protection provisions, customers had to create customer accounts to make online purchases.

Verkkokauppa.com had earlier