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Article 4 GDPR — enforcement

Cited in 22 decisions · €3.1M total fines · median €8,300 · top authority: 🇧🇪APD/GBA (Belgium) (4)

Date ↓ Company / party Authority Articles Fine
2026-08-12 AEPD (Spain) - PS/00249/2025 🇪🇸 AEPD (Spain) Art. 411Art. 4Art. 52Art. 5 €10,000
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
2026-07-24 ANSPDCP (Romania) - Fine against There's an AI for that S.R.L 🇷🇴 ANSPDCP (Romania) Art. 4 €30
2026-07-20 Italian DPA: Justice Ministry unlawful disclosure of employee health data in service order 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 49Art. 4Art. 410Art. 415 €12,000
2026-07-16 AEPD investigates University of Navarra over student COVID-19 vaccination status requests 🇪🇸 AEPD (Spain) Art. 415Art. 4Art. 51Art. 5
2026-07-09 ANSPDCP (Romania) - Fine against Ascendex Technology SRL 🇷🇴 ANSPDCP (Romania) Art. 423Art. 4Art. 121Art. 12 €57,839
2026-06-18 Italian Garante: Employer's recording of locker opening and destruction of contents 🇮🇹 Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italy) Art. 21Art. 2Art. 41Art. 4 €6,600
2026-05-28 EDPB - Binding Decision 1/2026 🇪🇺 EDPB Art. 424Art. 4Art. 571Art. 57
2026-04-16 AKI (Estonia) - No. 2.1-1/24/397-890-38 🇪🇪 AKI (Estonia) Art. 47Art. 4Art. 411Art. 51
2026-02-26 S.M. Trattamento Acqua di XX
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇮🇹 Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) Art. 4Art. 5Art. 6Art. 7 €30,000
2026-02-12 Depurazione Acqua S.r.l.
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
🇮🇹 Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) Art. 4Art. 5Art. 6Art. 7 €15,000
2026-01-12 DSB: Medical student fined for recording dementia patient video without Art 9 GDPR basis 🇦🇹 DSB (Austria) Art. 415Art. 4Art. 51Art. 5 €200
2024-10-11 Belgian DPA finds cookie banner without reject-all button and unequal withdrawal violates 🇧🇪 APD/GBA (Belgium) Art. 411Art. 4Art. 51Art. 5
2023-11-24 Belgian DPA settles with Mediafin: De Tijd cookie banner must add equal "refuse all" 🇧🇪 APD/GBA (Belgium) Art. 411Art. 4Art. 61Art. 6
2022-12-29 CNIL fines VOODOO for cookie and tracker consent failures in mobile games 🇫🇷 CNIL (France) Art. 82Art. 5Art. 4 €3,000,000
2022-05-25 APD/GBA (Belgium) - 85/2022 🇧🇪 APD/GBA (Belgium) Art. 411Art. 4Art. 51Art. 5 €50
2022-01-21 Belgian DPA rules on competence in cross-border cookie consent complaint involving 🇧🇪 APD/GBA (Belgium) Art. 41Art. 4Art. 411Art. 51
2021-08-05 DSB Austria: sharing medical assessment with municipality lacked Art. 9(2) legal basis 🇦🇹 DSB (Austria) Art. 42Art. 4Art. 47Art. 410 €600
2020-11-19 DSB (Austria) - 2020-0.743.659 🇦🇹 DSB (Austria) Art. 415Art. 4Art. 51Art. 5
2020-07-30 HDPA (Greece) - 23/2020 🇬🇷 HDPA (Greece) Art. 41Art. 4Art. 47Art. 5
2019-12-18 DSB (Austria) - D123.768/0004-DSB/2019 🇦🇹 DSB (Austria) Art. 44Art. 4Art. 47Art. 851
2017-11-08 Datatilsynet (Norway) - 15/01355 🇳🇴 Datatilsynet (Norway) Art. 411Art. 4Art. 51Art. 5