By Neil Hodge2021-05-26T18:08:00+01:00
As the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) marks its third anniversary, lawyers and data protection experts continue to raise concerns that fine decisions are largely arbitrary, vary considerably from one EU country to the next, and lack transparency.
According to Privacy Affairs, a website that compiles GDPR enforcement data, there have been 661 fines under the law as of May 17 totaling approximately €293 million (U.S. $359 million). France’s €50 million penalty against Google in 2019 remains the highest. Spain has issued a third (222) of the total number of fines logged—some three times that of Italy, in second place with 73.