Poste Italiane, Postepay Fined €12.5M for Unlawful User Data Processing

**Italian Data Protection Authority fines Poste Italiane and Postepay over €12.5M** for unlawful intrusive monitoring by their mobile apps affecting millions of users and ordered remedial actions; the report also details a separate Intesa Sanpaolo €31.8M penalty after prolonged insider misuse that exposed sensitive data of ~3,500 customers, underscoring regulatory focus on excessive data collection and weak internal monitoring in the financial sector.