Italian DPA fines Wind Tre EUR 16 700 000 for unlawful telemarketing and data protection infringements
Italy's data protection authority fined telecom operator Wind Tre €16.7 million for unlawful telemarketing practices and multiple violations of GDPR, including failures around lawful processing, transparency, the right to object, and data protection by design. The decision was finalized on June 5, 2026.
Why this matters: Telemarketing is one of the most common ways people feel their data is being used against them. You did not ask to be called. You may have said stop. And the company kept going anyway. This fine covers nearly every foundational rule in GDPR — lawful basis, transparency, the right to object, security. When a company breaks that many rules at once, it is not an oversight. It is a system that was built to ignore people's choices. A fine this size is meant to change that calculation.
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