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

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 ...

On 27 March 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a £3.07 million fine to an IT services provider following a ransomware attack in 2022 that affected the company’s health care ...

Noyb says New York-based facial recognition biz flouted GDPR orders and kept scraping anyway Privacy advocates at Noyb filed ...

The UK’s data protection regulator has welcomed a court ruling dismissing an appeal against a historic GDPR fine, arguing that it will provide much-needed clarity for future cases. The Information ...

In December 2019, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) imposed a fine of £275,000 on Doorstep Dispensaree Limited (DDL) for multiple contraventions of the GDPR. On December 9 2024, five ...

Seven years into GDPR, half of the world’s biggest social media platforms are still being slapped with fines like they never read the memo. Surfshark's latest study finds that five out of the ten most ...

The Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn has been ordered to pay €310 million ($334 million) by the European Union’s privacy regulator over targeted advertising practices, ...

Data protection regulators, particularly in Europe, appear to be taking a tough line with large tech firms over data privacy violations. Law firm DLA Piper recorded a total of €1.2bn ($1.26bn) of ...

Spain’s €1M ($1.1 million) fine on LaLiga premier football league underscores the challenge of balancing privacy rights with public safety as sports leagues increasingly use biometric systems at ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Microsoft-owned LinkedIn 310 million euros (U.S. $335 million) over violations of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...

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