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€750,000 AEPD sanctions Vodafone España for inadequate Super WiFi processor agreement and oversight Vodafone España, S.A.U., the controller, operated a service known as "Super WiFi" through a third-party processor. Following a data breach affecting the service, the DPA's… Spain ·Art. 5, 28, 32 Sep 23, 2026
SEK 1.8M IMY fines Miljödata SEK for Article 32 GDPR violation after ransomware breach of 2.2M An IT company that provides digital HR and occupational health services (Miljödata) detected a data breach in August 2025. In the breach, an external attacker had gained… Sweden ·Art. 32 Sep 22, 2026
€20,000 AEPD fines El Español for publishing video of minor assailant without anonymization El León de El Español Publicaciones, S.A., the controller, operates the Spanish digital newspaper „El Español“. It published an article concerning an assault and embedded a video… Spain ·Art. 5, 25, 58 Sep 16, 2026
€10,000 Garante · 551/2026 The Bologna University Hospital IRCCS (the controller), published on its website a pdf list containing the names and the eligibility status of candidates to an income-based… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 9
Finnish DPA orders Espoo to ensure pupil data protection in Google learning tools In April 2018, the DPA received a complaint stating that the city of Espoo (the controller) was using Google's digital learning tools in a school without obtaining consent from… TSV/40/2018 ·Finland · Sep 4, 2026
DSB: Retailer must grant full access and delete data after third-party fraud order A retailer (controller) sent a notebook to the address of a data subject after having received an order to that address. However, the data subject has never placed the order and… DSB-D124.2016/23 ·Austria ·Art. 6, 13, 14 +2 Aug 26, 2026
Austrian DSB: e-marketplace transfer of customer data to China and US requires valid Art. The DPA was acting upon a complaint addressing the subject matter of third country personal data transfers. The controller, established in Ireland, operates an e-marketplace… D130.2269 ·Austria ·Art. 45, 46, 49 Aug 25, 2026
HDPA: Hellenic Open University found to have met breach notification duties after The Hellenic Open University (‘the controller’) submitted initial and supplementary notifications to the DPA after it was subject to a data breach resulting from a ransomware… 14/2026 ·Greece ·Art. 32, 33, 34 +1 Aug 19, 2026
€1,000 Austrian DSB: Employee who shared customer's phone number acted as GDPR controller An employee (controller) of a company shared the telephone number of a costumer (data subject) with a third person. The third person who was a personal acquaintance of the… Austria ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +1 Aug 18, 2026
Finnish DPA finds 12-year retention of rental applicant data violates minimisation The DPA began investigating the storage periods of the personal data of housing applicants (the data subjects) contained in rental housing applications during a previous… TSV/1319/2025 ·Finland · Aug 7, 2026
€200,000M 15/2026 The Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family (the controller), and the Hellenic Local Development and Local Government Company (the processor) notified the DPA that information… Greece · ·Art. 5, 28, 32 Jul 28, 2026
APDCAT sanctions Madremanya City Council for inadequate redaction of sensitive data in On 8 May 2025, Madremanya City Council, acting as controller, published on its notice board two administrative acts concerning a tender procedure for the award of a social housing… PS-0036/2026 ·Spain ·Art. 5, 31 Jul 17, 2026
€158,000 Garante · 487/2026 Character Technologies, Inc (the controller) is a company established in the US that operates the site Character.AI. Character.AI is a generative AI service that allows users to… Italy ·Art. 3, 5, 12 +7 Jul 3, 2026
HDPA · 12/2026 The complainant, a foreign national, submitted a complaint to the Hellenic DPA through his authorized attorney, seeking his deletion from the Hellenic the National Registry of… 12/2026 ·Greece ·Art. 23 May 13, 2026
The data subject was a technician employed by the controller The controller used weekly handwritten service sheets as a system for recording working time. These sheets contained the technician’s working hours, journeys, services performed… 97/2026 ·Belgium · May 6, 2026
The data subject was employed by an Austrian stock corporation (the controller) from August 2018 to June 2025 They worked as a manager in the controller’s finance department, with technical and disciplinary responsibility for up to five employees. The controller operated a 360-degree… 2025-0.960.016 ·Austria · Mar 20, 2026
DSB Austria: disclosure of health data to court-appointed expert in legal dispute lawful The data subject was involved in a legal dispute before a civil court in which the findings of an expert opinion led to the dismissal of the case. The expert opinion concerned the… DSB-D124.0850/25 ·Art. 9 Jan 28, 2026
€25,500 DSB · 2025-1.049.138 The controller was a digital marketing agency whose employees pre-screened potential applicants for its clients. As part of this process, applicants (data subjects) were contacted… Austria ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +1 Jan 19, 2026
DSB · 2026-0.043.390 Following the first COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, a limited liability company (the controller) decided to offer protective masks to the general public. It set up an online shop… 2026-0.043.390 ·Austria ·Art. 5, 12, 13 Jan 16, 2026
€200 A medical student (the controller) worked as a ward attendant at a hospital Her duties were to remain in the immediate vicinity of patients, ensure their safety and notify the nursing staff immediately when necessary. While assigned to a patient with… 2026-0.016.479 ·Austria · Jan 12, 2026
The controller, an Austrian registered association, operates a therapy centre for psychosomatic illnesses The data subject was a patient of the controller. On 28 July 2025, the data subject sent an access request by email under Article 15 GDPR, asking for full information on all… DSB-D124.2437/25 ·Austria · Jan 9, 2026
DSB · 2025-0.968.031 A data subject published a post concerning their ADHD diagnosis on a publicly accessible online forum under a pseudonym. A person (the controller) who was a follower of the data… 2025-0.968.031 ·Austria ·Art. 9 Dec 3, 2025
DSB · 2025-0.950.759 On 18 September 2023, a data subject created a customer account with a public limited company operating an online shop (the controller). It allowed customers to place orders… 2025-0.950.759 ·Austria ·Art. 5, 6, 16 +2 Nov 24, 2025
€800,000 CEGEDIM SANTÉ: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The French DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 800,000 on CEGEDIM SANTÉ. The company, which provides software for medical practices, had transferred customer data for research purposes.… FRANCE · ·Art. 5, 66 Sep 12, 2024
€14M Avast Software s.r.o.: €13,900,000 fine The Czech DPA has fined Avast Software s.r.o. EUR 13.9 million. The company had disclosed the personal data of around 100 million users of its antivirus software to the US company… CZECH REPUBLIC · ·Unknown Apr 15, 2024
€18,000 Cluster S.r.l.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA imposed a fine of EUR 18,000 on Cluster S-r.l. A data subject had complained to the DPA because their son's health-related data and their own personal data had… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 32 Nov 16, 2023
DSB (Austria): DSB lacks competence over court processing under Art. 55(3) GDPR On 03 May 2021, the data subject sent a request to the controller for the erasure of their financial asset information. The controller did not respond to their erasure request. On… 2021-0.909.100 ·Art. 55, 77 Jun 12, 2023
€15,000 Thin Srl: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 15,000 on Thin Srl. The authority took action following a complaint from a GP who alleged that the company had breached data protection… ITALY · ·Art. 5, 9, 13 Jun 1, 2023
€1,000 Private individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 1,000 on a private individual. Two individuals had filed a complaint with the DPA due to the fact that the controller had published… ITALY · ·Art. 2, 5, 6 +2 Nov 24, 2022
DSB · 2021-0.643.804 The data subject divorced her husband in a proceeding before the district court (the controller), acting in its capacity as the competent land registry court. As part of the… 2021-0.643.804 ·Austria ·Art. 6, 55 Jun 9, 2022
€1,200 Researcher: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Belgian DPA has fined a researcher EUR 1,200. The fine was issued in connection with another fine against the NGO EU DisinfoLab. The researcher was employed at the NGO. In… BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +3 Jan 27, 2022
€2,800 EU DisinfoLab: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Belgian DPA has fined the NGO EU DisinfoLab EUR 2,700. In 2018, the NGO published an analysis to identify the possible political origin of tweets circulating on a particularly… BELGIUM · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +5 Jan 27, 2022
€6M Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A.: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Hellenic DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 6 million on Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A.. Cosmote had reported a data breach to the DPA pursuant to Art. 33 GDPR. A hacker… GREECE · ·Art. 5, 13, 14 +4 Jan 27, 2022
€1,200 Property Owner Community: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Spanish DPA (AEPD) has fined a property owners' community EUR 1,200. A property manager had sent a copy of the general meeting minutes to the director of the security company… SPAIN · ·Art. 5 Jan 21, 2022
DSB Austria: Publishing companies-register data on free ad-funded platform unlawful The data subject was a shareholder and managing director of two companies. The controller operated a free online search platform that allowed users to look up companies registered… 2021-0.698.184 ·Art. 6, 51, 57 +1 Oct 8, 2021
€600 Private individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Austrian DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 600 on a private individual. A private individual had sent a document obtained in a court case between the data subject and himself to… AUSTRIA · ·Art. 9 Aug 5, 2021
€29,000 Mermaids: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The ICO has fined transgender charity Mermaids EUR 29,000 for failing to protect the personal data of its users, in breach of Art. 5 (1) f) UK GPDR and Art. 32 (1), (2) UK GDPR.… UNITED KINGDOM · ·Art. 5, 32 Jul 5, 2021
€6,000 KEPIDES: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Cypriot DPA imposed a fine of EUR 6,000 against KEPIDES (real estate company). The controller had submitted a list of buyers of the properties it manages to a parliamentary… CYPRUS · ·Art. 32 Mar 3, 2021
Private individual: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The DPA of Brandenburg has imposed a three-digit fine on a company employee. The employee had forwarded application documents received by his employer from his work e-mail address… GERMANY ·Art. 6 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Jan 1, 2021
DSB Austria: Restaurant contact-tracing data collected for COVID-19 qualifies as health The data subject (customer) filed a complaint against a Viennese restaurant claiming a violation of § 1 Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz - DSG) and Article 6 GDPR:… 2020-0.743.659 ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +1 Nov 19, 2020
Austrian DSB: Controller's use of social security number for statutory financial aid was The controller shared the data subject's social security number with a financial service provider in order to provide financial aid, to which the data subject did not consent. On… 2020-0.714.215 ·Austria ·Art. 4, 9 Nov 5, 2020
DSB: online article about former politician is journalistic processing under Art. 85 GDPR In June 2019, the complainant requested erasure of her personal data from the respondent's website, claiming that an article on that website contained wrong statements about her.… 2020-0.303.727 ·Austria ·Art. 17, 85 Sep 1, 2020
€2,000 Romanian Post National Company: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Processing of personal data, namely the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of 81 data subjects, by the Romanian Post as data controller, failing appropriate technical and… ROMANIA · ·Art. 32 Jul 30, 2020
The complainant belongs to a political party and is a member of the city council of an Austrian municipality In November, the municipality held a meeting on the "parking space concept", to which a certain group of addressees, including the complainant, was invited. The complainant did… DSB-D123.768/0004-DSB/201 ·Austria · Dec 18, 2019
€15,000 Website providing legal information: Insufficient fulfilment of information obligations An operator of a website for legal news had the privacy statement only available in English, although it was also addressed to a Dutch and French speaking audience. In addition,… BELGIUM · ·Art. 6, 12, 13 Dec 17, 2019
Deliberação 2019/494 In its Opinion 20/2018 concerning the draft of Law 58/2019 which ensures the implementation of the GDPR in the portuguese national legal framework, the DPA drew the attention of… Deliberação 2019/494 ·Portugal · Sep 3, 2019
€80,000 Company in the financial sector: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security In an administrative decision dated 12 April 2019, the authority imposed a fine of 80,000 euros on a medium-sized financial services company. This company had failed to take the… GERMANY ·Art. 5, 32 ·Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Apr 12, 2019