European data regulators issued a record €2.92 billion in fines last year, up 168% on 2021, with Meta the hardest hit. According to the latest GDPR and Data Breach Survey from international law firm ...

WhatsApp has won the right to challenge a €225mn fine imposed by the Irish data regulator, in a legal victory for the ...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp 225 million euros ($266 million) after finding that it violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation by failing to disclose to users how ...

After five years of the E.U.’s massive data privacy law in effect, few are happy with the results. The E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) touts itself as the toughest data privacy ...

Authorities in the Netherlands have smacked Haga Hospital with a GDPR fine. Authorities in the Netherlands recently levied a €460,000 ($516,000) fine under the General Data Protection Regulation ...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has enforced the lion’s share of a record €1.78 billion in European GDPR fines over the last year. According to law firm DLA Piper’s annual GDPR and Data Breach ...

When large organizations decide where to base their operations, a jurisdiction's data-regulation enforcement could become as significant a consideration as its tax treatment, if the EU's first ...

Over the last five years of GDPR, the most popular social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Whatsapp, and X, formerly Twitter) were fined over €2.9B for GDPR breaches, of which €765M was ...

Since its implementation in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been instrumental in shaping data privacy and protection practices worldwide. In the first few years following ...