On May 15, the Danish Data Protection Authority announced that it has reported the recruitment company JobTeam to the Police along with a DKK 50,000 fine proposal for erasing personal data before responding to a data subject’s access request. Following
Right to be forgotten: Google saves €100, 000 in France but loses €7 million in Sweden
€100,000 saved in France On March 27, 2020, the French Supreme Administrative Court (Conseil d’Etat) struck out a €100,000 fines imposed by the French Supervisory Authority (the CNIL) on Google in 2016. Besides the financial sanction, the CNIL had also
Overview of the GDPR Sanctions since January 2020
Since the beginning of 2020, the Supervisory Authorities across the European Union have issued several fines on companies breaching the provisions of the GDPR or national marketing laws. The main decisions are as follows: – Italy: two fines of respectively €11,5
Germany: 14.5 M€ fine for data storage in breach of the GDPR
On October 30th 2019, the Berlin Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued a fine of around 14.5 million Euros against Deutsche Wohnen SE for keeping data in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although this decision is mainly about
France Cnil: 150 000 Euros fine for Facebook
The CNIL has imposed a penalty of 150,000 € made public against the companies FACEBOOK INC and FACEBOOK IRELAND. According to the authority, the amount and the publicity of this sanction are justified by the number of breaches (6 in