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Organisations received £155 million in GDPR fines in 2020

IT Governance

In 2020, organisations received €182 million (about £155 million) in fines for violating the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , according to an IT Governance report. Our GDPR Fines Quarterly Report revealed that more than two thirds of that total – €110 million (£94 million) – came in the final quarter of the year.

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EDPB Releases Overview on the Implementation and Enforcement of the GDPR

Hunton Privacy

On February 26, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) presented its first overview of the GDPR’s implementation and the roles and means of the national supervisory authorities to the European Parliament (the “Overview”). 23 DPAs reported an increase in their regulatory budgets for 2018-2019.

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Germany: Bonn Regional Court overrules GDPR Fining Guidelines by German Data Protection Authorities

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Background: How to calculate GDPR fines? How to properly calculate administrative fines for non-compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘ GDPR ’) is one of the most important questions when applying the GDPR on practical level, e.g. : What is actually meant by the reference to “undertaking” in Article 83 (4) to (6) GDPR?

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Privacy and Cybersecurity September 2019 Events

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

September 11. Melissa Bianchi and Bret Cohen will discuss how AIRI institutes can best comply with the requirements and challenges presented by the GDPR as well as HIPAA, and other regulations during the panel, “ The New Alphabet Soup of IT Compliance: GDPR, HIPAA and Other Regulations ,” at the AIRI 2019 Annual Meeting.

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GERMANY: Right of consumer protection associations and competitors to initiate civil actions under GDPR will be case for CJEU

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Federal Court of Justice (“ BGH ”) has submitted to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ CJEU ”) the question whether consumer protection associations or competitors are authorised to initiate a civil action in case of infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (BGH, decision of 28 May 2020, Ref. I ZR 186/17).

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2019 end-of-year review part 2: July to December

IT Governance

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. million for breaching the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). million for breaching the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). You can find more of July’s incidents in our list of data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2019.

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Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak

Security Affairs

The data of Facebook users from 106 countries were available for free, with over 32 million records belonging to users from the US, 11 from the UK, and 6 million users from India. Immediately after the disclosures of the data leak the Irish DPC launched an investigation of potential GDPR violations by Meta. ” reported the WSJ.

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