{"id":2008,"date":"2019-08-12T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2019-11-04T12:17:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T10:17:46","slug":"gdpr-fines-2019-much-ado-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/blog\/2019\/08\/12\/gdpr-fines-2019-much-ado-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"GDPR fines 2019 \u2013 much ado about nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest update on the GDPR<\/ins><\/a> fines is enlisted below and it shows that privacy is not dead.<\/p>\n

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PWC BS<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 150 000<\/p>\n

Reason: inappropriate legal basis (consent) and violation of the principle of accountability<\/p>\n

DPA: HDPA (GR)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: employees<\/p>\n

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Marriott International<\/p>\n

Fine: \u00a3 99 200 396<\/p>\n

Reason: data breach<\/p>\n

DPA: ICO (UK)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: customers (399 M)<\/p>\n

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British Airways<\/p>\n

Fine: \u00a3 183 390 000<\/p>\n

Reason: data breach<\/p>\n

DPA: ICO (UK)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: customers (500 K)<\/p>\n

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Taxa 4×35<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 160 000<\/p>\n

Reason: failure to delete customers’ data<\/p>\n

DPA: Danish DPA (DK)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: customers (9 M)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Municipality of Bergen<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 170 000<\/p>\n

Reason: inadequate data security<\/p>\n

DPA: Norwegian DPA (NO)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: users (35 K)<\/p>\n

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Google<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 50 000 000<\/p>\n

Reason: lack of transparency, inadequate information, lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization<\/p>\n

DPA: CNIL (FR)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: users<\/p>\n

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Uniontrad Compan<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 20 000<\/p>\n

Reason: the video surveillance systems it set up to monitor its employees<\/p>\n

DPA: CNIL (FR)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: employees<\/p>\n

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EE Limited<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 100 000<\/p>\n

Reason: direct marketing messages to its customer without consent<\/p>\n

DPA: ICO (UK)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: customers (2,5 M)<\/p>\n

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Facebook<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 1 000 000<\/p>\n

Reason: Cambridge Analytica (\u20ac 1 M)<\/p>\n

DPA: Garante (IT)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: users<\/p>\n

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Facebook<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 2 000 000<\/p>\n

Reason: breaching the country`s law on internet transparency<\/p>\n

DPA: Federal Office of Justice (DE)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: users<\/p>\n

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\u00d6sterreichische Post AG (\u00d6PAG)<\/p>\n

Fine: \u20ac 18 000 000<\/p>\n

Reason: processing personal data on the alleged political affinity of affected data subjects<\/p>\n

DPA: The Austrian data protection authority (DPA)<\/p>\n

Data Subjects: users<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest update on the GDPR fines is enlisted below and it shows that privacy is not dead.   PWC BS Fine: \u20ac 150 000 Reason: inappropriate legal basis (consent) and violation of the principle of accountability DPA: HDPA (GR) Data Subjects: employees   Marriott International Fine: \u00a3 99 200 396 Reason: data breach DPA: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gdpr-fines-2019-website_DDoS-2_DDoS-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/10guards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}