The Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum faced a €175,000 fine for breaching GDPR regulations in the deployment of advanced surveillance systems at refugee camps. The Centaur and Hyperion systems, funded by the EU and utilizing AI and biometric technology, were found to violate data protection rules.
A thorough investigation by the Greek Data Protection Authority (DPA) revealed that the ministry failed to adhere to GDPR requirements as the data controller for the surveillance systems. Concerns were raised about efforts to rectify compliance issues only after the systems were already in operation.
Civil society organizations, including Homo Digitalis and HIAS Greece, prompted the DPA investigation into the migration ministry's surveillance systems. They questioned the lack of impact assessments during the projects' planning stages, a mandatory GDPR directive.
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