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 ruling in part reflects a tension between how biometrics are often used in practice and the definition of biometrics as “special category data” under GDPR.
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, ...
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 ...
Authorities in the Netherlands have smacked Haga Hospital with a GDPR fine. Authorities in the Netherlands recently levied a €460,000 ($516,000) fine under the General Data Protection Regulation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, March 13 (Reuters) - Amazon on Friday won its appeal against a record 746-million-euro ($854.4 ...
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 ...
The Czech Republic’s data protection authority (DPA) issued a fine of 351 million Czech koruna (U.S. $15 million) against antivirus software vendor Avast for alleged violations of the General Data ...