Year 1 of GDPR: Over 200,000 cases reported, firms fined €56 meeelli… Oh, that’s mostly Google
European data protection agencies have issued fines totalling €56m for GDPR breaches since it was enforced last May, from more than 200,000 reported cases – but watchdogs have said they’re just warming up. However, almost all of it comes from French data watchdog CNIL’s €50m fine for Google.
One thing that did change immediately under GDPR, if not the fines, was the number of incident reports. This was particularly so for companies turning themselves in over data breaches. In the first nine months, there were 206,326 cases reported under the new law from the supervisory authorities in the 31 countries in the European Economic Area.
