sanctions

February 20, 2020

Lack of big tech GDPR decisions looms large in EU watchdog’s annual report

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner – the lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech – has put out […]

February 14, 2020

Facebook Inc.’s German unit was handed a fine of 51,000 euros for failing to properly nominate a data protection officer […]

February 13, 2020

Data protection authorities (DPAs) are rapidly increasing their GDPR enforcement activities and here are some trends coming to surface. While […]

February 13, 2020

Last month the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, imposed a monetary penalty notice of £500,000 on […]

February 2, 2020

The Commissioner for Personal Data Protection (Cypriot SA) banned the processing and fined LGS Handling Ltd, Louis Travel Ltd and […]

January 21, 2020

New findings from DLA Piper show that 160,000 data breach notifications reported across 28 European Union Member States and data […]

January 21, 2020

The Italian Supervisory Authority imposed two fines on Eni Gas and Luce (Egl), totalling EUR 11,5 million, concerning respectively illicit […]

January 15, 2020

Last year, the data protection authorities in the EEA imposed 190 fines with a total cost of over €410,000,000, according […]

January 11, 2020

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined DSG Retail Limited (DSG) £500,000 after a ‘point of sale’ computer system was […]

January 10, 2020

Further to the publication of the ICO’s notices of intention to fine British Airways and Marriott in July 2019, the […]

January 7, 2020

The first ever General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) penalty in the United Kingdom has been sanctioned against a London-based pharmacy […]

January 5, 2020

The world’s toughest privacy law proves toothless in the eyes of many critics. More than 18 months after the European […]