A bank had retained the personal data of former customers in order to create a blacklist. Apparently, they wanted to prevent those customers from opening up new accounts at their bank because they were suspected of money laundering. While the bank wanted to hand-wave away this unlawful act by appealing to the German Banking Act, the Berlin Supervisory Authority found this to be illegal.
a bank had retained the personal data of former customers in order to create a blacklist apparently they wanted to prevent those customers from opening up new accounts at their bank because they were suspected of money laundering while the bank wanted to handwave away this unlawful act by appealing to the german banking act the berlin supervisory authority found this to be illegal
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