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Article 12 GDPR — enforcement

Cited in 452 decisions · €1.2B total fines · median €11,500 · top authority: 🇪🇺Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) (155)

Date ↓ Company / party Authority Articles Fine
2026-07-24 HDPA (Greece) 33/2020 — Employee's access and erasure claims against the American College 🇬🇷 HDPA (Greece) Art. 47Art. 4Art. 5Art. 12 €2,000
2026-07-22 NAIH fines online store HUF 2M for unclear and incomplete privacy notice 🇭🇺 NAIH (Hungary) Art. 121Art. 12Art. 131Art. 13 €2,000,000
2026-07-22 Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto (Finland) - TSV/4630/2023 🇫🇮 Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto (Finland) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 122Art. 12
2026-07-17 CNIL fines energy supplier for mishandling data subject access and objection requests 🇫🇷 CNIL (France) Art. 12Art. 14Art. 15Art. 21 €1,000,000
2026-07-17 AEPD: No fine for surveillance cameras facing public road; no evidence of rights 🇪🇸 AEPD (Spain) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 12Art. 15
2026-07-14 Italian DPA sanctions Lusha Systems for processing contact data without consent in B2B 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 32Art. 3Art. 32Art. 51 €2,000,000
2026-07-09 ANSPDCP (Romania) - Fine against Ascendex Technology SRL 🇷🇴 ANSPDCP (Romania) Art. 423Art. 4Art. 121Art. 12 €57,839
2026-07-03 Italian Garante sanctions Hera Comm for automated credit-check refusals of contracts 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 13Art. 14 €5,800,000
2026-07-03 Italian DPA finds GDPR applies to US-based Character.AI service 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 32Art. 3Art. 52Art. 5 €158,000
2026-06-18 Garante: Piaggio violated GDPR by accessing former employees' emails in disciplinary probe 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 123Art. 12Art. 17Art. 6 €460,000
2026-06-18 Italian DPA: Vasto municipality breached transparency duties over traffic cameras 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 51Art. 61 €5,000
2026-06-12 Market-In
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
🇬🇷 Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) Art. 5Art. 12Art. 13Art. 15 €95,000
2026-06-12 MEDE S.A.
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
🇬🇷 Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) Art. 5Art. 12Art. 13Art. 15 €65,000
2026-06-01 Elkjøp AS
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇳🇴 Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet) Art. 5Art. 6Art. 12 €1,820,000
2026-05-29 Blikk Kft.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇭🇺 Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH) Art. 6Art. 9Art. 12 €70,300
2026-05-28 Italian DPA: AgID's automatic transfer of PEC addresses to INAD index unlawful 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 51Art. 52 €55,000
2026-05-12 NAIH fines online store HUF 15M for transparency and Article 12(1) GDPR violations 🇭🇺 NAIH (Hungary) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 121Art. 12 €15,000,000
2026-05-12 Technology Company
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇧🇪 Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) Art. 5Art. 6Art. 12Art. 13 €177,000
2026-05-12 Isabel SA
Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights
🇧🇪 Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) Art. 5Art. 12Art. 13Art. 15 €120,000
2026-05-12 Société Wallonne des Eaux
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇧🇪 Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) Art. 5Art. 12Art. 13Art. 28 €86,000
2026-05-08 Law Firm
Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights
🇧🇪 Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) Art. 5Art. 12Art. 13Art. 14 €4,920
2026-05-06 APD/GBA: Controller failed to provide copies of service sheets for GDPR access request 🇧🇪 APD/GBA (Belgium) Art. 122Art. 12Art. 123Art. 124
2026-04-30 NAIH fines online store HUF 10M for missing and inadequate privacy notice 🇭🇺 NAIH (Hungary) Art. 51Art. 5Art. 52Art. 121 €10,000,000
2026-04-23 Accountancy Firm
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇧🇪 Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) Art. 5Art. 6Art. 12Art. 17 €8,500
2026-04-17 Framos Italia s.r.l.
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
🇮🇹 Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) Art. 5Art. 6Art. 12Art. 13 €5,000