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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
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 Data Breaches Notification Obligation Personal Data Sep 22, 2026
€120,000 Italian DPA sanctions Experian Italia for incomplete Art. 15 GDPR access responses on The DPA received several complaints from data subjects concerning Experian Italia S.p.A (the controller) an Italian credit information system. The controller was processing the… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 15 +1 Privacy by Design Personal Data Supervisory Authorities Sep 16, 2026
AEPD: Data subject entitled to identity of professionals who accessed medical records Suspecting unauthorised access to his medical records, a public civil servant, the data subject, requested the Ministry of Defence, the controller, to provide a log copy of… pd-00055-2026 ·Spain ·Art. 5, 12, 15 +2 Personal Data Healthcare Right of Access Sep 15, 2026
€3,150 APDCAT: Public body violated GDPR by disclosing audio recording to four extra recipients On 22 January 2025, an employee and trade union representative of a public-sector organisation, the data subject, emailed the DPO requesting access to and a copy of a recording of… Spain ·Art. 5, 6, 12 +1 Recipient Personal Data Right of Access Sep 15, 2026
IP Slovenia: Controller breached Art. 15(1)(d) and 15(3) GDPR by denying storage info and The data subject made an access request asking for (i) a copy of their personal data processed by the controller and (ii) information on the envisaged storage period of this data.… 0602-68/2025/18 ·IP-RS ·Art. 12, 15 Controllers Right of Access Personal Data Sep 8, 2026
Garante warns ReLife Recycling for failing to timely respond to GDPR access request The data subject sent a complaint to the DPA regarding correspondence between him and the company ReLife Recycling s.r.l. (the controller), which was sent without his consent to… 515/2026 ·Italy ·Art. 12 Right of Access Personal Data Right to Restriction
RON 26,237 Fine against GEROCOSSEN S.R.L. Gerocossen SRL (the controller) suffered a cyberattack that affected its IT infrastructure. As a result, unauthorised parties gained access to personal data relating to some data… Romania ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 32 Data Breaches Notification Obligation Security Sep 8, 2026
€24,000 Friuli Centrale University Health Authority: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) found that the Friuli Centrale University Health Authority (ASUFC) violated Articles 5(1)(f), 9, 25, and 32 of the GDPR based on a… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 9, 25 +1 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Data Breaches Personal Data Sep 3, 2026
€5.5M Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A.: Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) found Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (Italian branch) violated Articles 5(1)(a), 12, 21, and 24 of the GDPR by continuing to… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 21 +1 Personal Data Right to Object Direct Marketing Sep 3, 2026
€7,200 UODO fines controller PLN 31,507 for failing to provide information under Art. 58(1) GDPR The DPA launched an investigation into two websites operated by the controller under case number DKN.5101.8.2025. The controller collected the names and the occupations of… Poland ·Art. 58 Controllers Personal Data Supervision Sep 1, 2026
€5,320 Slovenian DPA fines controller €5,320 for leaving employee personal data documents Paper documents containing the personal data of employees (the data subjects) were meant to be destroyed at a company (the controller). The personal data in these documents… Slovenia ·IP-RS ·Art. 5, 32 Personal Data Controllers Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Sep 1, 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
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 Privacy Shield International Transfer Processing Agreement Aug 25, 2026
Datatilsynet reprimands Danish Tax Administration for access request delays (2019-2024) In November 2024 the DPA started an investigation against the Danish Tax Administration (‘the controller’) for their processing time of access requests. 30 September 2025 the DPA… 2024-432-0039 ·Denmark ·Datatilsynet (DK) Right of Access Personal Data Right to Restriction
€280,000 Garante · 10269624 The controller is a publishing company that sells subscriptions to consumer information services through its website. Users can sign up by filling in a registration form on the… Italy ·Art. 6, 7, 12 +2 Right to Object Personal Data Direct Marketing
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 Data Breaches Notification Obligation Integrity and Confidentiality Principle 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 Controllers Legitimate Interest Personal Data Aug 18, 2026
Datatilsynet (DK) · 2023-31-0321 A customer of a bank ('the data subject'), suspected that their former spouse, who was employed by the same bank ('the controller'), was accessing their accounts and decided to… 2023-31-0321 ·Denmark ·Art. 12, 15 Right of Access Personal Data Controllers Aug 18, 2026
RON 285,395 AMATO BESTSELLER S.R.L. A general wholesale/retail trade company (controller) failed to implement adequate technical and organisational measures, such as appropriate training of its employees, in order… Romania ·ANSPDCP ·Art. 5, 9, 12 +2 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Personal Data Retention Period Aug 18, 2026
ICO (UK) - ACRO Criminal Records Office ACRO Criminal Records Office, the processor, is a national police unit providing public services including Police Certificates, International Child Protection Certificates,… ACRO Criminal Records Office ·United Kingdom ·Art. 32 Controllers Personal Data Processors Aug 7, 2026
€2,250 Associazione Culturale "Quadrante Sud": Insufficient fulfilment of data subjects rights The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined Associazione Culturale "Quadrante Sud" €2,250 for insufficient fulfillment of data subjects' rights, finding violations of… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 13 Personal Data Transparency Supervisory Authorities Aug 6, 2026
HRK 940,000 Decision 08-03-2022 (energy company) The controller is a company that manages gas stations. The data subject tried to refuel at one of the controller's gas stations and was dissatisfied with the measurement of the… Croatia ·AZOP ·Art. 15 Right of Access Personal Data Fines
RON 523,900 Fine against Orange Romania SA of July 17, 2026 The investigation was initiated after Orange Romania SA (the controller) notified the Romanian DPA (ANSPDCP) of a personal data breach pursuant to Article 33 GDPR, related to its… ANSPDCP ·Art. 25, 32 Data Breaches Privacy by Design & Default Privacy by Design Jul 29, 2026
€200,000 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 ·HDPA ·Art. 5, 28, 32 Controllers Data Breaches Notification Obligation Jul 28, 2026
€2,000 33/2020 The data subject was under the employment of the College for a certain period of time, during which two female students of the College filed a complaint against the complainant… Greece ·HDPA ·Art. 4, 5, 12 +8 Right to be Forgotten Personal Data Right of Access
Finnish DPA: requesting address, ID number and strong authentication for access request A company that provides comparison services for loans and financial products (the controller) received a loan application submitted on the data subject’s behalf in October 2022.… TSV/4630/2023 ·Finland ·Tietosuojavaltuutettu Identification Personal Data Retention Period Jul 22, 2026
€300,000 CNIL fines EXTIA for failing to properly handle job applicant erasure requests EXTIA, the controller, is a French consulting company specialising in IT and engineering services. As part of its recruitment activities, the controller processed personal data of… France ·Art. 12, 17 Personal Data Right to be Forgotten Right to Restriction Jul 21, 2026
€90,000 AEPD · PS-00159-2025 On 13 December 2024, the DPA received a complaint against ACVIL Aparcamientos, S.L.U., the controller, concerning a request for video surveillance footage from a car park. The… Spain ·Art. 14, 15 Right to Restriction Personal Data Controllers
€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
€1.4M Garante · 484/2026 EstEnergy S.p.A. (hereinafter, the controller) is an Italian energy company supplying natural gas, electricity and related services. Before entering into contracts, the controller… Italy ·Art. 5, 13, 14 +2 Storage Limitation Personal Data Controllers Jul 3, 2026
€120,000 Experian Italia S.p.A.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante) fined Experian Italia S.p.A. €120,000 for violating GDPR Articles 5(1)(a) and (c), 12, 15, and 25, concerning non-compliance with… Italy ·Garante ·Art. 5, 12, 15 +1 Privacy by Design Right of Access Personal Data Jul 3, 2026
€2,760 UODO fines accounting firm €2,760 for email breach security failures An unauthorised entity gained access to an email account belonging to an employee at an accounting, bookkeeping and tax consulting company (the controller). The account contained… Poland ·Art. 5, 24, 25 +1 Data Breaches Notification Obligation Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Jun 13, 2026
€95,000 Market-In: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) fined Market-In €95,000 for violations of the general data processing principles under Article 5 GDPR, including failures related to… Greece ·HDPA ·Art. 5, 12, 13 +2 Retention Period Accountability Transparency Jun 12, 2026
€65,000 MEDE S.A.: Non-compliance with general data processing principles The Hellenic Data Protection Authority fined MEDE S.A. €65,000 for violating general data processing principles under Article 5 GDPR, along with failures concerning transparency… Greece ·HDPA ·Art. 5, 12, 13 +2 Right of Access Supervisory Authorities Accountability Jun 12, 2026
€300,000 Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore, County Offaly: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security The Data Protection Authority of Ireland fined Midlands Regional Hospital Tullamore €300,000 for failing to implement sufficient technical and organizational measures to ensure… Ireland ·DPC ·Art. 5, 28, 30 +2 Notification Obligation Data Breaches Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Jun 11, 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
UODO fines controller for refusing to cooperate and provide information in two data The DPA received two complaints against the same company (the controller) due to the unauthorised access to the data subjects’ personal data. The first complaint concerned… DKE.561.1.2026 ·Poland ·Art. 31, 58 Controllers Personal Data Supervision Jun 1, 2026
Binding Decision 1/2026 On 10 August 2021, a data subject represented by noyb lodged a complaint with the Austrian DPA against Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), the controller. The… Binding Decision 1/2026 ·European Union ·EDPB Supervision Supervisory Authorities Personal Data May 28, 2026
UODO reprimands mayor for disclosing data subject's data to company without legal basis The data subject requested the mayor of their place of residence (the controller) to provide them scans of contracts the city had concluded with certain companies and invoices… DS.523.2582.2024 ·Poland ·Art. 5, 6 Personal Data Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Right to Restriction May 18, 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
€277,500 Permanent TSB: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security Data Protection Authority of Ireland fined Permanent TSB €277,500 on 2026-05-08 for: Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security. Ireland ·DPC ·Art. 5, 32, 33 Integrity and Confidentiality Principle Notification Obligation Data Breaches May 8, 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 ·APD/GBA Personal Data Right of Access Controllers May 6, 2026
OÜ Dr Mõttus Hambaravi, the controller, is a Dental Clinic On March 2024, the DPA received a complaint from a data subject regarding the fact that the controller had failed to provide all personal data requested. The controller only… No. 2.1-1/24/397-890-38 ·Estonia ·AKI Controllers Processors Privacy by Design & Default Apr 16, 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
Slovenian DPA: Controller breached Art. 32, 15 and 34 GDPR over data breach and access A controller, not named in the original decision but presumed to be a public institution, notified the Slovenian DPA after experiencing a data breach in relation to its website.… 0612-91/2025/40 ·Slovenia ·IP-RS Data Breaches Controllers Personal Data Mar 4, 2026
DSB: Art. 15 GDPR access right does not extend to full documents with third-party data The data protection authority (DPA) has determined that, according to Article 15 of the GDPR, an individual has the right to access personal data relating to them, but this right… 2025-0.395.497 ·Austria ·Art. 15 Right of Access Personal Data Supervisory Authorities 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 ·DSB Right of Access Personal Data IP Address Jan 9, 2026