On Monday, 3 January 2022, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published the finalized version of its regulatory guidance entitled “Examples regarding Personal Data Breach Notification” (the ...
The number of organizations notifying their GDPR regulator of a data breach surged by 22% to a daily average of 443 in 2025, according to DLA Piper. The global law firm has been analyzing GDPR ...
On 22 August 2025, the UK Court of Appeal issued its judgment in Farley v Paymaster. 1 The case related to the Sussex Police, whose pension scheme members’ “annual benefit statements” were posted to ...
European Union data-protection regulators hit French ad-technology company Criteo with a $65 million (€60 million) sanction based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a set of consumer ...
GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that suggests the ...
The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data ...
EU data protection authorities have handed out a total of $1.2 billion in fines over breaches of the bloc's GDPR law since Jan. 28, 2021, according to law firm DLA Piper. GDPR, which has been in force ...
With Facebook investigating how a software flaw exposed the accounts of some 50 million of its users, European regulators are already asking for answers and gearing up for possible legal action ...
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has enforced the lion’s share of a record €1.78 billion in European GDPR fines over the last year. According to law firm DLA Piper’s annual GDPR and Data Breach ...
The introduction of new data protection rules significantly reduced breaches by firms but negatively impacted their market value, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and ...
Learn why GDPR compliance in business isn’t just about data policies – it’s about controlling devices. Discover practical ...