Spain: AEPD fines El Español €20,000 for publishing identifiable vide…

Spain's data protection authority fined El Español €20,000 for publishing an identifiable video of a minor without effective anonymization, breaching GDPR Article 5(1)(c) on data minimisation. The AEPD found the outlet failed to balance press freedom against protection of minors' personal data. If you publish video or images online, Spain now treats identifiable minors as a strict liability issue—anonymisation isn't optional, it's mandatory, and the AEPD will fine first. Any platform or publisher in Europe handling user-generated content needs video detection and blur tooling built in before uploading.