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A private website operator published documents they collected from public registers The DPA held that the operator failed to ensure that later access restrictions imposed by the authorities are considered and that a legitimate interest could not be blanket legal… 2.1.-4/26/1106-2333-4 ·Estonia · Oct 1, 2026
Icelandic DPA opens formal proceedings against Isavia over ANPR parking cameras at The DPA initiated an investigation into Isavia domestic airports Ltd. (the controller) concerning the electronic monitoring of car parks in five airports: Reykjavík, Akureyri,… 2025061555 ·Iceland · Sep 30, 2026
Persónuvernd: Icelandic Farmers’ Association breached GDPR by disclosing owner data to The DPA received a complaint from a data subject, after the Icelandic Farmers’ Association operating a database, disclosed her personal data without consent to the company… 2025010358 ·Iceland ·Art. 5, 14 Sep 23, 2026
€403M Google Ireland Limited: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Google Ireland Limited €403 million on September 21, 2026, following an inquiry into the company's processing of personal data… ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +1 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Sep 21, 2026
€10,000 AEPD fines MÁS SOL ENERGÍA for marketing call to Robinson List subscriber MÁS SOL ENERGÍA 15, S.L., the controller, is a company that carries out customer acquisition through telephone calls to offer solar panel installation services. On 18 November… Spain ·Art. 4, 5, 7 +1 Sep 16, 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
HDPA investigates Greek Infrastructure Ministry for SMS sent without consent or The DPA started an investigation, after receiving 83 complaints from data subjects, against the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation (the controller). Particularly,… 17/2026 ·Greece ·Art. 5, 14 Sep 15, 2026
€408,000 AEPD: CaixaBank requested excessive inheritance documentation from heirs A data subject and other heirs were handling the inheritance of a deceased customer through CaixaBank, S.A., the controller. In the course of the inheritance procedure, the… Spain ·Art. 13, 25, 30 Sep 10, 2026
€2,000 AEPD · ps-00256-2025 After receiving an in-person visit at her address, a data subject received a letter from a third party concerning a plot of land. The third party asked the data subject to… Spain ·Art. 6 Sep 8, 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
HDPA orders TEIRESIAS S.A. to ensure data accuracy under Art. 5(1)(d) GDPR 29 January 2023, the data subject requested TEIRESIAS S.A. (‘the controller’) to delete an entry registered in their database, and to correct the “erroneous financial data”… 4/2026 ·Greece ·Art. 5
€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
An Italian broadcasting company (controller) disseminated an episode about the murder of a woman The murder case dates back several years but gained new attention after the investigation into the murder case was re-opened. In the dissemination, the interior of the home of the… 10273026 ·Italy · Aug 18, 2026
€200,000 XFERA MÓVILES, S.A.U. (XFERA), the controller, is a telecommunications provider The data subject was a customer of the controller and held a mobile telephone line. On 24 July 2023, an unauthorised third party requested a duplicate SIM card for the data… ps-00148-2025 ·Spain · Aug 13, 2026
NOK 205,000 Datatilsynet ordered Lab Pharma AS to erase influencer's personal data used after Lab Pharma AS, the controller, is a Norwegian manufacturer of dietary supplements which markets and sells its products online. In 2016, an influencer, the data subject, entered… Norway · ·Art. 6, 17, 21 +1 Aug 12, 2026
€10,000 Bologna University Hospital IRCCS: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined Bologna University Hospital IRCCS €10,000 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis. The Garante found… Italy · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Jul 23, 2026
€30,000 Emiglia-Romagna Regional Employment Agency: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined the Emiglia-Romagna Regional Employment Agency €30,000 for violations of Articles 5, 6, and 9 of the GDPR concerning an… Italy · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Jul 23, 2026
HUF 2M NAIH-11443-3/2026 The DPA initiated an investigation into the GDPR compliance of an online store (the controller) processing the data of its customers (the data subjects) in April 2025. The… Hungary ·Art. 12, 13 Jul 22, 2026
€1M CNIL · SAN-2022-011 The controller is a limited liability company whose business is the supply and production of electricity and gas in France. Several data subjects sent complainants to the French… France ·Art. 12, 14, 15 +2
AEPD · EXP202102529 A student handed in a complaint against the University of Navarra because they asked the students to fill in their vaccination status. The complainant understands this as a breach… EXP202102529 ·Spain ·Art. 4, 5, 6 +3
€2M Garante fines Lusha Systems Inc. over unauthorized B2B contact database Lusha Systems Inc. (the controller) operated a subscription-based platform that provided professional contact information through a business-to-business (B2B) database. It was a… Italy ·Art. 3, 5, 6 +2 Jul 14, 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
€5.8M 483/2026 Several data subjects lodged complaints with the Italian DPA (Garante) after Hera Comm S.p.A., an energy supplier (the controller), declined to conclude electricity or gas… Italy · ·Art. 5, 12, 13 +3 Jul 3, 2026
€460,000 Garante · 476/2026 Two former employees (the data subjects) of Piaggio (the controller) were dismissed for just cause in March 2023. Following the termination of their employment, they asked the… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +2 Jun 18, 2026
€6,600 Garante · 462/2026 The case involves a worker (the data subject), his former employer (the controller), and the staffing agency that had provided the company with the worker. In late 2023 the data… Italy ·Art. 2, 4, 5 +2 Jun 18, 2026
€1,000 Dormeo Home SRL: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP) fined Dormeo Home SRL €1,000 for insufficient fulfillment of data subjects' rights under the… Romania · ·Art. 6, 21 Jun 16, 2026
Belgian DPA rejects delisting request for US government URL showing criminal conviction The data subject requested from a search engine (controller) the removal of a URL that appears when the data subject’s name is entered into the search engine. The URL points to… DOS-2025-04652 ·Belgium · Jun 8, 2026
€70,518 IndaNext Hungary Kft. (legal successor of Blikk Kft.): Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and the Freedom of Information (NAIH) fined IndaNext Hungary Kft., as legal successor to Blikk Kft., €70,518 for publishing… ·Art. 6, 9, 12 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing May 29, 2026
€1,500 Francesco Gagliardi: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) found Francesco Gagliardi, operating as a sole proprietorship, in violation of Articles 5(1)(a) and 14 of the GDPR and Article 130… Italy · ·Art. 5, 14 May 14, 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
HUF 15M NAIH-450-7-2026 The DPA initiated an investigation into the processing of personal data of customers (the data subjects) by the operator of an online store (the controller) in April 2025. The… Hungary ·Art. 5, 12, 13 May 12, 2026
HUF 10M NAIH-4462-5-2026 The DPA initiated an investigation into the processing of the personal data of customers (the data subjects) by the operator of an online store (the controller) in April 2025. The… Hungary ·Art. 5, 12, 13 Apr 30, 2026
€5,000 Dr. Guzzo: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined Dr. Guzzo €5,000 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis. The violation concerned healthcare data and… Italy · ·Art. 5, 9 Apr 29, 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
€200 Medical Student: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Austrian Data Protection Authority (dsb) fined a medical student €200 for processing personal data without a sufficient legal basis under GDPR Article 6(1)(f) and Article… Austria · ·Art. 6, 9 Jan 12, 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
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
€72,000 AEPD · PS-00480-2025 Tiger Media Inc., the controller, operated an advertising platform for publishers and advertisers of adult products and services. The platform acted as an ad network, connecting… Spain ·Art. 6, 27 Nov 14, 2025
€892,783 E.ON Energia spa: Insufficient legal basis for data processing ITALY · ·Art. 5, 6, 7 +5 Nov 27, 2024
APD/GBA · 131/2024 On 10 February 2023 the data subject, a trainee working at noyb – European Center for Digital Rights, visited the website of the controller, a Belgian media company. The data… 131/2024 ·Belgium ·Art. 4, 5, 6 Oct 11, 2024
€25,000 Belgian DPA finds MediaHuis violated GDPR fairness over cookie banner design A data subject visited four website operated by MediaHuis, namely: Gazet van Antwerpen; De Standaard; Het Nieuwsblad; Het Belang van Limburg. On each website there was a cookie… Belgium · ·Art. 5, 6, 7 Sep 6, 2024
APD/GBA · 74/2024 On 30 January 2024, the data subject received an email from a candidate in the June 2024 regional elections (‘controller’), promoting their programme. On 3 January 2024, the data… 74/2024 ·Belgium ·Art. 6 May 16, 2024
Following an investigation in 2019-2020, the EDPS issued recommendations and the Commission modified the ILA The EDPS investigated whether these modifications were sufficient to bring processing in compliance with data protection requirements and found infringements. Data accessed by… 2021-0518 ·European Union ·Art. 5, 6, 28 +1 Mar 8, 2024
DSB-D124.5337 In August 2021, an unprotected Excel file containing the names and PCR test results of several thousand individuals was sent from the compromised email account of the first data… 2023-0.273.912 ·Austria ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +3 Oct 6, 2023
€5.5M Debt collection company: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Croatian DPA (AZOP) has imposed of fine of EUR 5,470,000 to a debt collection company. The investigation was triggered by an anonymous complaint stating that controller… CROATIA · ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +2 Oct 5, 2023
54/2024 In 2020, the data subject filed a complaint with the DPA against Google LLC (the controller) for failing to fulfill their right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR) concerning links -… 54/2024 ·Greece · Jun 29, 2023
€150,000 KG COM: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The French DPA has imposed a fine of EUR 150,000 on the company KG COM. The company operates several websites and offers fortune-telling consultations to customers via chat or… FRANCE · ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +6 Jun 8, 2023
€50,000 DPC (Ireland) reprimands Kildare County Council over surveillance tech and CCTV compliance This case involves an own-volition investigation conducted by the Irish DPA (DPC) into Kildare County Council, the controller. In June 2018, Officers from the Special… Art. 2, 5, 6 +5 Jan 16, 2023