GDPR fines and notices

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union regulation that specifies standards for data protection and electronic privacy in the European Economic Area, and the rights of European citizens to control the processing and distribution of personally-identifiable information.

Violators of GDPR may be fined up to €20 million, or up to 4% of the annual worldwide turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater.[1] The following is a list of fines and notices issued under the GDPR, including reasoning.

Date	Organisation	Amount	Issued by	Reason(s)
2018-10	Hospital do Barreiro	€400,000	Portugal (CNPD)	"...based on access policies to databases, which allowed technicians and physicians to consult patients’ clinical files, without proper authorization."[2]
2018-11-21	Knuddels.de (German social network)	€20,000	Germany (LfDI)	"...unauthorized access to and disclosure of personal data of around 330,000 users, including passwords and email addresses."[3]
2019-06-18	Unnamed police officer	€1,400	Germany (LfDI)	Autonomously processing personal data for non-legal purposes.[4]
2019-01-21	Google LLC	€50 million	France (CNIL)	Insufficient transparency, control, and consent over the processing of personal data for the purposes of behavioural advertising.[5][6]
2019-03-15	Bisnode (business, credit and market information)	€220,000	Poland (UODO)	Covert scraping of personal data.[7]
2019-03-16	Lower Silesian Football Association	€13,000	Poland (UODO)	Listing personal information of 585 referees on its website.[8]
2019-04-04	Rousseau (participatory democracy platform)	€50,000	Italy (GPDP)	Failing to protect users' personal data.[9]
2019-05-08	The Municipality of Bergen	€170,000	Norway (Datatilsynet)	File with login credentials for 35,000 students and employees found in a public storage area.[10]
2019-05-16	MisterTango UAB (payment services)	€61,500	Lithuania (ADA)	Processing more personal data than is necessary for effecting of the payment.[11]
2019-05-28	Unnamed Belgian mayor	€2,000	Belgium (GBA/APD)	Misuse of personal data collected for local administrative purposes for election campaign purposes.[12]
2019-06	La Liga	€250,000	Spain (AEPD)	Poorly disclosing purpose for requesting GPS and microphone permissions within the football league's mobile app. When the app was open, it transmitted the user's location if it detected an acoustic fingerprint embedded within game telecasts. This was used to help pinpoint the locations of venues that may be screening the games from unauthorized feeds.[13][14]
2019-06-18	Sergic (real estate services)	€400,000	France (CNIL)	Failure to implement appropriate security measures; failure to define appropriate data retention periods for the personal data of unsuccessful rental candidates.[15]
2019-06-11	IDDesign A/S (furniture)	DKK 1,5 million	Denmark (Datatilsynet)	Failure to delete personal data from an older system: processing personal data for a longer time than necessary.[16]
2019-06-18	Uniontrad Company (translation services)	€20,000	France (CNIL)	Excessive video surveillance of employees; single, shared password for messaging system; ignoring earlier CNIL order to change practices.[17]
2019-06-24	EE (telecoms)	£100,000	UK (ICO)	Sending over 2.5 million direct marketing messages to its customers, without consent.[18][19]
2019-07-08	British Airways	£183 million	UK (ICO)	Use of poor security arrangements that resulted in a 2018 web skimming attack affecting 500,000 consumers.[20][21][22]
2019-06-27	UniCredit Bank Romania	€130,000	Romania (ANSPDCP)	Failure to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures[23][24]
2019-07-09	Marriott International	£99 million	UK (ICO)	Failure to undertake sufficient due diligence when acquiring Starwood hotels group, whose systems where compromised in 2014, exposing approximately 339 million guest records[25]
2019-07-03	Marriott International	€235,000	Turkey (KVKK)	Failure to implement necessary technical and administrative and measures to ensure data security and breaching notification obligations[26]
2019-07-03	Cathay Pacific	€88,000	Turkey (KVKK)	Failure to implement necessary technical and administrative and measures to ensure data security and breaching notification obligations[27]
2019-07-16	HagaZiekenhuis	€460,000	The Netherlands (AP)	Insufficient security of medical records[28][29]
2019-07-25	Active Assurances	€180,000	France (CNIL)	Failure to implement appropriate security measures.[30]
2019-07-25	PricewaterhouseCoopers	€150,000	Greece (HDPA)	Unlawful processing of employee data.[31]
2019-08-21	Skellefteå High School Board	€20,000	Sweden (SDPA)	Using facial recognition technology to monitor the attendance of students in school on an invalid legal basis; processing sensitive biometric data unlawfully and failure to do an adequate impact assessment including seeking prior consultation with the Swedish DPA.[32]
2019-03-07	Unnamed bank	€1,560	Hungary (NAIH)	Failure to erase and correct data at the request of the data subject. [33]
2019-03-07	Unnamed debt collector	€1,560	Hungary (NAIH)	Breaching the principles of transparency and data minimisation. [34]
2019-??-??	Unnamed company	€3,135	Hungary (NAIH)	Infringing a data subject's access rights. [35]
2019-08-12	Unnamed medical company	€55,000	Austria (DSB)	Not appointing a DPO, not publishing its contact details or reporting those to the supervisory authority, obligatory consent of data subjects (Art. 7), not providing information (Art. 13, 14), no DPIA despite handling sensitive data (Art. 35). [36]
2019-08-12	Unnamed online retailer	€7,000	Latvia (DSI)	Nonconformity with data subjects rights to erasure and non-cooperation with the supervisory authority. [37]
2019-09-19	Unnamed retailer	€10,000	Belgium (GBA/APD)	Demanding an electronic identity card to create a customer loyalty card.[38]
2019-09-20	Online retailer Morele.net	€645,000	Poland (UODO)	Insufficient protection of personal data, leading to the exposure of data of about 2.2 million people[39]
2019-10-17	Vueling Airlines	€30,000	Spain (AEPD)	Failing to obtain valid consent to process customer cookies, as per privacy notice. [40]
2019-12-09	1&1 Ionos	€9,550,000	Germany (BfDI)	Insufficient protection of personal data, failing to put “sufficient technical and organizational measures” in place to protect customer data in its call centers. Violation of article 32 of GDPR [41]
2019-12-17	Doorstep Dispensaree	£275,000	UK (ICO)	"cavalier attitude to data protection”, having left 500,000 patient records in an unsecured location [42]
2020-07-14	Google LLC (Google Belgium)	€600,000	Belgium (GBA/APD)	Failure to respect a citizen's right to be forgotten.
2020-07-06	BKR	€840,000	Netherlands (AP)	Failing to give access to personal data free of charge, failing to provide easy means of accessing the data, putting unreasonable limits on the number of requests per individual [43]

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