New research released today by Finbold reveals which countries in Europe violate GDPR guidelines the most, as well as the total combined GDPR fines of EU countries to date.
You can view the research in full here:
https://finbold.com/gdpr-fines-2020/
With it being over two years since GDPR was implemented in the EU and EEA, the team over at Finbold has studied the fines and penalties that data protection authorities have imposed in the EU, by sourcing data from the GDPR Enforcement Tracker fines database.
GDPR fines: total list for 2020
The top ten EU countries with the biggest total GDPR fines are:
Finbold research
Italy came out on top of the report, with total fines accumulating €45,609,000. The number of recorded fines they received was 13.
In second place was Sweden. Their fines accumulated to €7,031,800 and they received 4 official fines. They were followed by the Netherlands, with the finds accumulating to €2,080,000, their fines totalling at 3.
Towards the lower half of the table, Belgium accumulated fines of up to €717,000, despite acquiring 7 fines.
The bottom of the table was Ireland, with €115,000 and having received 4 fines.
Amazingly Spain received the highest amount of fines, beating out the other countries considerably with 76 sanctions. These fines only amounted to €1,952,810.
Other key findings from this report include:
€60,181,250 is the total GDPR fine of EU countries, as of 2020
The most common GDPR violation is an insufficient legal basis for data processing.
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