sanctions

November 15, 2018

Romania uses EU data protection law to silence journalists

An award-winning journalism outlet in Romania is being threatened with fines by the country’s data protection authorities – for having […]

November 7, 2018

An investigation conducted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into a data breach suffered by Leave.EU has left the pro-Brexit […]

November 4, 2018

The average value of fines issued by the UK’s data protection authority doubled over the last year to reach £146,000. […]

November 2, 2018

On July 17, 2018, the Portuguese Supervisory Authority (“CNPD”) imposed a fine of 400.000 € on a hospital for infringement […]

October 29, 2018

City AM reports that the average financial penalty issued by the UK regulator for data fines has doubled over the […]

October 26, 2018

Austrian Data Protection Authority (“DSB”) has issued a fine against an entrepreneur for violations of the GDPR. The entrepreneur had installed […]

October 26, 2018

One of the largest consumer internet hacks has bred one of the largest class action settlements after Yahoo agreed to […]

October 25, 2018

Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The […]

October 25, 2018

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has by now 162 cross-border cases on its case register and are under investigation. Some […]

October 17, 2018

The European Data Protection Supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, says that we can expect to see DPAs take enforcement action soon. He said […]

October 15, 2018

An interim injunction has been issued by Würzburg Regional Court against a lawyer who displayed an unfinished Privacy Policy on […]

October 14, 2018

Irish privacy authorities are looking into whether Twitter was in breach of the European law when it refused to comply […]