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AP · €100,000,000 Ridetech International B.V.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing Dutch Supervisory Authority for Data Protection (AP) fined Ridetech International B.V. €100,000,000 on 2026-04-01 for: Insufficient legal basis for data processing. Processing Personal Data Supervisory Authorities Apr 1, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Zoetermeer: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Zoetermeer. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Health Data Public Authority Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Gooise Meren: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Gooise Meren. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Public Authority Health Data Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Ede: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Ede. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Public Authority Health Data Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Hilversum: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Hilversum. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Health Data Public Authority Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Delft: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Delft. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Public Authority Health Data Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Veenendaal: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Veenendaal. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Health Data Public Authority Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Tilburg: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Tilburg. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Public Authority Health Data Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Huizen: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Huizen. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Health Data Controllers Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Haarlemmermeer: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the… Political Opinions Health Data Public Authority Feb 3, 2026
AP · €25,000 Municipality of Eindhoven: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 25,000 on the Municipality of Eindhoven. The controller, one of ten municipalities that were fined, processed data regarding the Islamic… Political Opinions Health Data Public Authority Feb 3, 2026
AP · €175,000 Arnhem and Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 175,000 on Arnhem and Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences. The controller suffered a data breach due to insufficient technical and… Data Breaches Security Education Dec 15, 2025
€2,700,000 Experian Nederland B.V.: Onvoldoende juridische basis voor de verwerking van gegevens. 2.700.000 euro boete - Nederlandse Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP). Processing Personal Data Data Controller NL Oct 16, 2025
€2,700,000 Experian Nederland B.V.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 2,700,000 on Experian Nederland B.V. The controller, a company that determines individuals' creditworthiness and sells this information,… Controllers Personal Data Processing Agreement Oct 16, 2025
€40,000 Coolblue B.V: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of €40,000 on Coolblue. The company collected personal data via cookies without users' explicit consent, relying on pre-ticked consent boxes. Cookies Consent Processing Agreement Dec 23, 2024
€4,750,000 Netflix International B.V.: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 4.75 million on Netflix. This fine is based on a complaint filed by the Austrian organization 'noyb'. During its investigation, the DPA… Corrective Actions and Duty of Information Framework Personal Data Telecommunications Nov 26, 2024
€6,000 Ambitious People Group B.V.: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 6,000 on the recruitment company Ambitious People Group B.V. . The controller had not deleted the data of data subjects after they had… Controllers Personal Data Processing Agreement Jun 4, 2024
€50,000 A.S. Watson Health & Beauty Continental Europe B.V.: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 600,000 on A.S. Watson Health & Beauty Continental Europe B.V.. The controller had tracked visitors to their drugstore website… Cookies Controllers Processors May 2, 2024
€150,000 International Card Services B.V.: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 150,000 on International Card Services B.V. (ICS). ICS failed to carry out a data protection impact assessment before starting the digital… DPIA Privacy Impact Assessment Security Jan 15, 2024
€10,000,000 Uber Technologies Inc. Uber B.V.: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Dutch DPA has fined Uber Technologies Inc. and Uber B.V. EUR 10 million for failing to provide sufficient information about the storage period of European drivers' data and… Processing Agreement Personal Data Employees Dec 11, 2023
€30,000 Voorschoten municipality: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 30,000 on Voorschoten municipality. The municipality had kept information about household waste for longer than necessary and had not… Education Personal Data Public Authority Nov 2, 2023
€150,000 Dutch Social Insurance Institution (SVB): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 150,000 on the Dutch Social Insurance Institution (SVB). The controller had suffered a data breach in which a client's data had been leaked… Data Breaches Security Education Jan 19, 2023
€3,700,000 Dutch Tax and Customs Administration: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 3,7 million on the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration. This is the highest fine ever imposed by the Dutch DPA As part of its… Retention Period Storage Limitation Education Apr 7, 2022
€565,000 Dutch Foreign Ministry: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 565,000 on the Dutch Foreign Ministry. As part of its investigation, the DPA found that the National Visa Information System (NVIS)… Security Public Authority Public Sector Feb 24, 2022
€525,000 DPG Media Magazines B.V.: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The Dutch DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 525,000 on DPG Media Magazines B.V. The DPA had received several complaints regarding the way the controller handled requests from… Controllers Personal Data Data Controller Jan 14, 2022
€2,750,000 Dutch Minister of Finance: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA (AP) has fined the Minister of Finance EUR 2,75 million. In the context of childcare benefit applications, tax offices had processed data on the dual nationality of… Personal Data Public Authority IP Address Nov 25, 2021
€400,000 Transavia: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA has fined airline Transavia EUR 400,000. In 2019, the airline suffered a data breach, in which a hacker gained access to Transavia's systems through two accounts… Data Breaches Security Access Controls Nov 12, 2021
€450,000 UWV (Dutch employee insurance service provider): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA (AP) has fined UWV (the Dutch employee insurance service provider - 'Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen) EUR 450,000. The UWV had not properly secured the… Insurance Security Healthcare May 31, 2021
€750,000 TikTok: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations The Dutch DPA (AP) has fined the video portal TikTok EUR 750,000 for violating the privacy of young children. The information that Dutch users - mostly young children - received… Minors Social Media Personal Data Apr 9, 2021
€600,000 Municipality of Enschede: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch DPA (AP) has fined the municipality of Enschede EUR 600,000. In 2017, the municipality decided to install special measurement boxes to measure crowds in the city center… IP Address Public Authority Education Mar 11, 2021
€440,000 OLVG: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA (AP) imposed a fine of EUR 440,000 on the Amsterdam hospital OLVG. The controller had taken insufficient measures between 2018 and 2020 to prevent access by… Healthcare Health Data Security Feb 11, 2021
€12,000 Orthodontic Clinic: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA (AP) has fined an orthodontic clinic EUR 12,000. The web form that new patients used to sign up contained mandatory fields for all sorts of patient personal data.… Encryption Healthcare Security Feb 4, 2021
€525,000 Locatefamily.com: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Dutch DPA (AP) has imposed a fine of EUR 525,000 on Locatefamily.com. Locatefamily.com is a platform where people can search for the contact information of family members they… Representatives IP Address Telecommunications Dec 20, 2020
€475,000 Booking.com B.V.: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations The Dutch DPA (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) has fined Booking.com EUR 475,000 for not reporting a data breach to the DPA in a timely manner. In December 2018, criminals gained… Notification Obligation Data Breaches Article 19 GDPR - Notification of Rectification, Erasure or Restriction Dec 10, 2020
€830,000 Bureau Krediet Registration ('BKR'): Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights BKR had required the payment of a fee when individuals requested access to their personal data and only provided access to their data once a year free of charge by post. Personal Data Insurance Supervision Jul 6, 2020
€7,500 PVV Overijssel: Insufficient fulfilment of data breach notification obligations The Dutch DPA (AP) fined the Overijssel local branch of the PVV party EUR 7,500 for failing to notify the AP of a personal data breach, in violation of Art. 33 GDPR. An email… Notification Obligation Data Breaches Article 19 GDPR - Notification of Rectification, Erasure or Restriction Jun 16, 2020
€725,000 Unknown Organisation: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The organisation had required its staff to have their fingerprints scanned to record attendance. However, as the decision of the data protection authority stated, the organisation… Consent Biometric Data Biometric Data Apr 30, 2020
€15,000 CP&A: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Dutch DPA (AP) has imposed a fine of EUR 15,000 on CP&A. The controller had documented both the causes of illness and specific complaints of the data subjects as part of the… Health Data Access Controls Security Mar 24, 2020
€525,000 Royal Dutch Tennis Association ('KNLTB'): Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined the Royal Dutch Tennis Association ('KNLTB') with EUR 525,000 for selling the personal data of more than 350,000 of its members to… Legitimate Interest Marketing Consent Mar 3, 2020
€50,000 Menzis (Health Insurance Company): Non-compliance with general data processing principles Marketing staff had access to patient data. Among other things, this violated the purpose limitation principle. Insurance Health Data Healthcare Oct 31, 2019
€900,000 UWV (Dutch employee insurance service provider): Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security As the UWV (the Dutch employee insurance service provider - 'Uitvoeringsinstituut Werknemersverzekeringen') did not use multi-factor authentication when accessing the online… Access Controls Health Data Insurance Oct 31, 2019
€350,000 Haga Hospital: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Original Fine Summary: The Haga Hospital does not have a proper internal security of patient records in place. This is the conclusion of an investigation by the Dutch Data… Healthcare Health Data Security Jun 18, 2019