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Following the European Court of Justice’s (“ECJ”) landmark judgement of 5 December 2023 (case no. C-807/21), the Higher Regional Court of Berlin specified the requirements for GDPR fine notices issued ...

The CJEU has decided that the maximum thresholds for GDPR fines should be calculated using the global turnover of the broader corporate group, not solely the infringing entity. The penalties ...

Data privacy has become one of the defining issues of the internet today. As big tech companies have invaded nearly every aspect of modern life, concerns have grown over how businesses collect, ...

Data protection authorities imposed over €1 billion in fines in 2024, but activists complain that violations of the law far too rarely result in penalties. Data protection authorities in Europe ...

Data protection penalties for accused companies may be based on the group turnover, not just the turnover of the offending company. Also in criminal courts. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ...

When large organizations decide where to base their operations, a jurisdiction's data-regulation enforcement could become as significant a consideration as its tax treatment, if the EU's first ...

GDPR turned five this week — and celebrated in customary style: by slapping Meta with another eye-watering fine. At a record-breaking €1.2bn, the punishment was the perfect self-gift for the EU ...

Since its implementation in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been instrumental in shaping data privacy and protection practices worldwide. In the first few years following ...

Over the last five years of GDPR, the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Whatsapp, and X, formerly Twitter) were fined over €2.9B for GDPR breaches, of which €765M was ...

It’s been a little over five years since the GDPR came into effect and fines keep amassing — especially for social media platforms. New research by Dutch VPN company Surfshark has found that, since ...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has enforced the lion’s share of a record €1.78 billion in European GDPR fines over the last year. According to law firm DLA Piper’s annual GDPR and Data Breach ...