Resolutions of the Hungarian data protection authority imposing fines under the GDPR (21 June 2019) Below you will find a brief summary of the resolutions of the data protection authority uploaded on their website up until today imposing a fine under the GDPR. 1. Failure to facilitate the exercise…

New Hungarian data protection fines The Hungarian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority (NAIH) has published new resolutions imposing fines. A summary of the resolutions follows below. 1. Text messages sent to wrong phone number A bank (the data controller) sent payment notice…

The first Hungarian GDPR fine A few days ago, the Hungarian data protection authority published its first resolution which imposes a GDPR fine (in the amount of HUF 1 million) on a data controller. According to the facts as contained in the resolution, the data subject wished to exercise his right…

Record data protection fine imposed by the French Data Protection Authority The French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) has imposed the highest data protection fine in history, an amount of EUR 50 million against Google for GDPR violations concerning individuals using Android-operated smart…

First GDPR fines Austria Based on the GDPR, the Austrian data protection authority imposed a fine on an undertaking which had installed a surveillance camera in a way that it also made records of a public sidewalk and failed to give proper prior information to the data subjects about the camera's…

Fine imposed on pharma company The National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority (DPA) has recently published on its website a decision imposing a fine on a pharma company. The date of the decision is 23 May 2018 and a summary of the decision follows below. The DPA imposed a fine…

Mega fines by data protection authorities The strict rules of the EU’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) will apply in all Member States of the EU as from 25 May and entities carrying out data processing activities – which fail to comply with the rules of the GDPR – may face serious…

Sanctions under the GDPR, the administrative fine According to the GDPR, supervisory authorities may adopt various sanctions against and impose an administrative fine on non-compliant entities. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) issued guidelines on the application and setting of…