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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 ·Persónuvernd Supervisory Authorities Personal Data Fairness & Transparency 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 Legitimate Interest Personal Data Fairness & Transparency Sep 23, 2026
€39,000 Italian DPA: employer breached Art. 15 GDPR by ignoring access request over disciplinary The data subject, a security guard of La Patria S.p.A. (the controller), complained to the DPA about the lack of response by the controller to two access requests regarding the… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 12, 13, 15 Supervisory Authorities Personal Data Right of Access 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… DPC ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +1 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Legitimate Interest Personal Data Processing Sep 21, 2026
€140,000 AEPD fines DIGI Telecom for issuing duplicate SIM to impersonator without consent On December 28, 2022, DIGI Telecom, the controller, delivered a duplicate SIM card to an unauthorized third party without the consent of the original line holder (the data… Spain ·Art. 5, 6, 83 Consent Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Personal Data Sep 16, 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 Personal Data IP Address Consent 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 Minors Anonymization Privacy by Design & Default 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 Consent Personal Data Lawful Basis 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 Privacy by Design & Default Personal Data Privacy by Design 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 Personal Data Legitimate Interest IP Address Sep 8, 2026
€8,000 Azienda Speciale per la Gestione degli Impianti Sportivi del Comune di Trento: Insufficient legal basis for data processing The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) found that Azienda Speciale per la Gestione degli Impianti Sportivi del Comune di Trento (A.S.I.S.) unlawfully installed video… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +1 Storage Limitation Retention Period Personal Data Sep 3, 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 Personal Data Legitimate Interest Right of Access 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 Accuracy Personal Data Right to Restriction
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 ·Garante Personal Data Retention Period Controllers Aug 18, 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 Controllers Legitimate Interest Personal Data 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 ·AEPD Personal Data Legitimate Interest Controllers 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 ·Datatilsynet (NO) ·Art. 6, 17, 21 +1 Personal Data Legitimate Interest Controllers Aug 12, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Legitimate Interest Personal Data Processing Jul 23, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 6, 9 Legitimate Interest Types of Special Categories of Personal Data Healthcare 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 Legitimate Interest Personal Data IP Address 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 Personal Data Right to Object Right of Access
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 Consent Personal Data Healthcare
€50,000 Garante · 10128005 The Calabrian Regional Agency for Agricultural Development (the controller) implemented a remote work policy that required employees to use a time-tracking application called… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 13 +3 Personal Data Monitoring DPIA
€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 Personal Data Direct Marketing Controllers 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 Personal Data Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Controllers 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 13 +3 Controllers Personal Data Processors Jul 3, 2026
€500 Estonian DPA: website republishing public authority documents independently liable under The controller was a private individual who operated a website that collected documents from public authorities’ document registers and made them easier to search and access… Estonia ·AKI ·Art. 5, 6, 9 +2 Legitimate Interest Personal Data Supervisory Authorities Jun 19, 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 Personal Data Legitimate Interest Material scope (GDPR) Jun 18, 2026
€5,000 Garante · 457/2026 The Municipality of Vasto (the controller) implemented a dedicated photo and video system for the purpose of detecting violations of the national provisions on traffic safety. A… Italy ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +2 Personal Data DPIA Fairness & Transparency Jun 18, 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 Storage Limitation Personal Data Retention Period 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 ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 6, 21 Personal Data Right to Object Legitimate Interest 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 ·APD/GBA Criminal Data Types of Special Categories of Personal Data Supervisory Authorities Jun 8, 2026
€880,000 Greek HDPA sanctions DEI for unsolicited promotional calls via processors The Greek DPA (HDPA) received twelve complaints filed against DEI, the Greek Public Power Corporation, (the controller) from telephone subscribers (data subjects) regarding the… Greece ·Art. 5, 28, 29 +1 Controllers Processors Direct Marketing Jun 2, 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… NAIH ·Art. 6, 9, 12 ·Insufficient legal basis for data processing Legitimate Interest Personal Data Controllers May 29, 2026
€55,000 The data controller for the case is a government body called the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) AgID is tasked with driving the adoption of digital technologies in both government and the private sector. Additionally, AgID is Italy’s soon-to-be notification authority for the… 419/2026 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 14 +1 Personal Data Controllers Legitimate Interest May 28, 2026
€6,000 A data subject filed a complaint before the DPA against the Liguria Health Protection Agency (the controller) The data subject was employed by the Ligurian Social and Health Care Agency, however, the organisation was later merged with the controller. According to the data subject, the… 382/2026 ·Italy ·Garante Privacy by Design Privacy by Design & Default Personal Data May 28, 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 14 Legitimate Interest Lawful Basis Personal Data 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 Personal Data Criminal Data Right of Access 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 Personal Data Fairness & Transparency Storage Limitation 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 Personal Data Fairness & Transparency Transparency 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 ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9 Retention Period Controllers Healthcare 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 ·DSB Legitimate Interest Personal Data IP Address Mar 20, 2026
€400,000 Italian DPA finds Cerved Group failed to disclose creditworthiness scores in Art. 15 The DPA received several complaints from data subjects concerning Cerved Group S.p.A. (the controller) an Italian credit rating agency. The controller was processing the personal… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 15 +3 Personal Data Supervisory Authorities Fairness & Transparency Mar 7, 2026
€150,000 The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) investigated Vodafone España, S.A.U as controller after a SIM swapping incident. On 21 September 2021, an unknown third party requested a duplicate SIM card for the mobile line of a data subject. The request was… EXP202306354 (PS/00312/2024) ·Spain ·Art. 5, 6 Personal Data Integrity and Confidentiality Principle IP Address Feb 11, 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 Healthcare Health Data Types of Special Categories of Personal Data Jan 28, 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 ·DSB Legitimate Interest Personal Data Health Data Jan 12, 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 ·DSB ·Art. 6, 9 Personal Data Legitimate Interest Types of Special Categories of Personal Data 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 Privacy by Design & Default Privacy by Design Privacy by Default 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 Legitimate Interest Controllers Supervision Nov 14, 2025