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€1.62B in GDPR fines later, are companies learning from their mistakes?

by nunorbatista on 7/5/22, 9:33 PM with 3 comments

• by Someone on 7/5/22, 10:03 PM

  > Let’s start with the easiest one: what is the trend of the GDPR decisions per month/year? The response is easy: upwards, particularly since the beginning of 2020

  I don’t think that’s a convincing argument. That ‘trend’ also could be caused by a lead time of about a year on fines being doled out (issues must be reported, investigations done, the accused must be given time to respond to the initial report, etc)

  Also: “one fine a day” sounds like a lot, but that’s about one a month per country in the EU.

• by eimrine on 7/5/22, 9:36 PM

  Was that income intended, kind of a real goal behind GDPR-ing down the Internets?

• by dekhn on 7/6/22, 1:36 AM

  The mistake is gdpr itself.