Articles
Privacy Risks in Real Estate Transactions
A risk map of the most common privacy failures observed in Spanish property transactions and how to mitigate them.
Published 2 June 2026
Top risks
- KYC documents sent over WhatsApp.
- Passport copies stored in personal email inboxes.
- Excessive collection (full passports when name + ID number suffice).
- Indefinite retention.
- Untracked sharing with third parties.
- No processor agreements with CRM or signature vendors.
Mitigations
Deploy a secure KYC platform, define a retention schedule, contract every processor, train every employee and run an annual GDPR / AML audit.