sanctions

January 21, 2020

€114 Million in Fines Imposed by EU Authorities Under GDPR

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 […]

January 5, 2020

Brazil announced that it had fined Facebook $1.6 million over improperly sharing user data with Cambridge Analytica. In issuing the […]

January 1, 2020

On December 17, 2019, the Belgian Supervisory Authority imposed a fine of €15,000 on an company operating a legal information […]

December 12, 2019

German Federal Data Protection Supervisory Authority (BfDI) imposed a 9.55 million Euro fine on the telecommunications company 1&1 Telecom GmbH. […]

December 10, 2019

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a proposed class action alleging that […]

December 10, 2019

The Hungarian Competition Authority – GVH – found that Facebook Ireland Ltd. had infringed competition law when it advertised its […]