France’s data protection authority (CNIL) has imposed significant fines totalling €42 million on Free Mobile (€27 million) and its parent company Free (€15 million) following a massive data breach that exposed millions of customers’ personal information...
The European Commission and Brazil have taken a major step towards a deeper digital cooperation by adopting mutual adequacy decisions that recognize each other’s data protection frameworks as equivalent...
The Spanish supervisory authority Agencia española protección datos (AEPD) imposed several fines on a pharmacy in Catalonia. The pharmacy had accessed the health data of nursing home residents without legal basis...
Hamburg sets a precedent for automated decisions. A company in Hamburg was fined ( 492,000 EURO ) for rejecting credit applications through fully automated algorithms without proper explanation or human review.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined the service provider Capita £14 million. The reason: inadequate security measures, which led to a massive hacker attack in March 2023.
The European Data Protection Board has published guidelines on the interaction of the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 12 September 2025.
The importance of complying with cookie consent requirements under the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive was also emphasized upon by other national authorities. On September 1st 2025, France’s data protection authority (CNIL) fined...
A German court ruled in March 2025 that cookie consent banners must present a “Reject All” button as clearly and prominently as “Accept All” – and this applies to any website targeting users in the EU, regardless of where the company is based.
