sanctions

January 10, 2020

ICO Delays British Airways and Marriott GDPR Fines

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 […]

December 2, 2019

Enormous fines imposed for data breaches in 2019 prove that regulators have become severe about penalizing companies and organizations that […]

November 27, 2019

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) are struggling to collect monetary penalties from organisations it has fined since 2015. 152 fines […]

November 25, 2019

The Dutch Data Protection Authority imposed an order for incremental penalty payments of 150,000 euros per month with a maximum […]

November 22, 2019

The Irish Data Protection Commission was due to give its draft decision on a WhatsApp privacy case in December, but […]