On June 21, the Spanish DPA published its 2015 annual report (source document in Spanish). The DPA reported that key issues in 2015 related to irregular procurement and credit blacklist files, and citizen complaints increased by more than 15 percent due to the right to be forgotten judgment issued by the European Court of Justice in 2014. According to the report, telecommunications companies were the most sanctioned companies for data protection violations in Spain.

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