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, ...

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 ...

The number of organizations notifying their GDPR regulator of a data breach surged by 22% to a daily average of 443 in 2025, according to DLA Piper. The global law firm has been analyzing GDPR ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

H&M Group has found itself on the receiving end of a hefty GDPR fine. The Swedish clothing juggernaut has been ordered to 35.3 million euros ($41.4 million) by the Hamburg Data Protection Authority ...

Meta has been hit with a €251 million GDPR fine Punshment follows Facebook data breach incident in 2018 Ireland's Data ...

Uber is facing a massive GDPR fine after the Dutch regulator claimed it violated the regulation by storing driver data in the US without adequate safeguards. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) ...