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GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

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Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising, but what this site makes clear to me is that GDPR enforcement is more lax on major companies than many people expected, and more severe on private individuals.

For all the breathless reporting of how GDPR would ruin companies financially by levying fines on worldwide revenue, there is exactly one fine listed that exceeds 400k EUR. Granted, it's 50MM EUR to Google, but that's still a drop in the bucket compared to Google's worldwide revenue.

On the other hand, commenters below have pointed out that some private individuals have received fines in the hundreds to thousands of EUR for actions such as "using Cc instead of Bcc in emails" and "using a dashcam". I agree that these are privacy lapses but it's pretty unfortunate to see the power of the state used for these purposes rather than bringing serial data privacy abusers in line.

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Wow. Here's an crazy one: Someone was fined 2000 euros for using CC instead of BCC in his little mailing list newsletter of 150 people in Germany. "The fine was impossed against a private person who sent several e-mails between July and September 2018, in which he used personal e-mail addresses visible to all recipients, from which each recipient could read countless other recipients. The man was accused of ten offen…

I expect there would have been a warning given in that case before assessing a fine. Many of the less serious ones I read explicitly mentioned warnings that were ignored.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

What's insane, the fact that you can't just go around recording people and cars?

On public streets, yeah, that's kind of insane. It's pretty common for people to have a dashcam running with a buffer so if you're involved in a not at fault accident or someone vandalizes your car, or such things, you have documentation.

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The fact that someone was fined for using a dashcam is beyond absurd.

I wonder where the line is drawn when it comes to things like that.

Yesterday I was walking on the side of the road and some girl was half way hanging out of the passenger window recording a video of the scenery. I was able to see her from a few hundred feet away.

Eventually the car intersected with me and I was in the line of sight of the video for a second or 2. Of course I made a stupid pose to photo bomb her video which I found hilarious while continuing my walk home.

But under GDPR, is she technically in violation for recording me without my consent? I can't imagine how any of that could really be enforced. What about all of those Youtubers who happen to record people in a busy place like NYC or Vegas. Do they really get written consent from 400-500 people in the background for 10 seconds of video?

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The fact that someone was fined for using a dashcam is beyond absurd.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

Actually he was lucky. Austrian law says the fine should be €10,000. It is not legal to own or to use a dashcam in Austria, like in a few other European countries

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The fact that someone was fined for using a dashcam is beyond absurd.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

The same link mentions issuing a GDPR reprimand against a person for using a security camera inside their own home.

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It's interesting how enforcement changes between countries. For instance, all the fines in Austria where for CCTV and dashcam use, all of France's fines were against large corporations, and the single fine Italy imposed was on the "Movimento 5 Stelle" political party.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"a man illegally used a dashcam, he was fined 300 euros. It was a camera recording the use of a car from the driver's point of view, which is illegal." Insane.

What's insane, the fact that you can't just go around recording people and cars?

Yes, that's what's insane.
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