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GDPR fines 2019 – much ado about nothing?

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en en, ru et ua.

The latest update on the GDPR fines is enlisted below and it shows that privacy is not dead.

 

PWC BS

Fine: € 150 000

Reason: inappropriate legal basis (consent) and violation of the principle of accountability

DPA: HDPA (GR)

Data Subjects: employees

 

Marriott International

Fine: £ 99 200 396

Reason: data breach

DPA: ICO (UK)

Data Subjects: customers (399 M)

 

British Airways

Fine: £ 183 390 000

Reason: data breach

DPA: ICO (UK)

Data Subjects: customers (500 K)

 

Taxa 4×35

Fine: € 160 000

Reason: failure to delete customers’ data

DPA: Danish DPA (DK)

Data Subjects: customers (9 M)

 

Municipality of Bergen

Fine: € 170 000

Reason: inadequate data security

DPA: Norwegian DPA (NO)

Data Subjects: users (35 K)

 

Google

Fine: € 50 000 000

Reason: lack of transparency, inadequate information, lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization

DPA: CNIL (FR)

Data Subjects: users

 

Uniontrad Compan

Fine: € 20 000

Reason: the video surveillance systems it set up to monitor its employees

DPA: CNIL (FR)

Data Subjects: employees

 

EE Limited

Fine: € 100 000

Reason: direct marketing messages to its customer without consent

DPA: ICO (UK)

Data Subjects: customers (2,5 M)

 

Facebook

Fine: € 1 000 000

Reason: Cambridge Analytica (€ 1 M)

DPA: Garante (IT)

Data Subjects: users

 

Facebook

Fine: € 2 000 000

Reason: breaching the country`s law on internet transparency

DPA: Federal Office of Justice (DE)

Data Subjects: users

 

Österreichische Post AG (ÖPAG)

Fine: € 18 000 000

Reason: processing personal data on the alleged political affinity of affected data subjects

DPA: The Austrian data protection authority (DPA)

Data Subjects: users

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