Controller gives out incorrect phone contact number .
Subjects ring the number and pass on confidential information about themselves, sometimes to answering machine, and sometimes to the line holder in person who (bizarrely) does not disabuse them.
Clearly inappropriate organisational checks by controller but is it actually a breach when the controller has never had access to the data?
If the call had come where intended the data would have been within scope of GDPR Art 2(1).
Personal data is clearly being processed (Art 4(2) at the direction of the controller but is the controller doing that 'processing' as it is a number controller has provided - even though due to the error it goes elsewhere … ?
My clear view is Yes - controller has decided means and purpose - end of discussion. Anyone disagree?
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