Post by account_disabled on Feb 18, 2024 1:25:21 GMT -5
The Spanish Data Protection Agency has imposed 11 million euros in fines on two banking entities between December and January: BBVA and CaixaBank . This amount represents de facto 70% of everything that the AEPD has fined since May 2018, when the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) of the European Union came into force. Although the AEPD is the control body that opens the most procedures for violations of the RGPD, with more than 170 cases, its sanctions are not very high. In the rest of Europe the trend is similar : although countries like France have already imposed historic sanctions, such as the 50 million it imposed on Google , it was not until 2020 that the fines skyrocketed. The Financial Times cites a recent report prepared by DLA Piper which highlights that in the last year 159 million euros in fines have been imposed.
Almost 40% of all sanctions that have been proposed since the GDPR came into force. Since the rule is in force – May 2018 – European data control authorities have imposed 272 million euros in sanctions. Half, highlights the Financial Times , at the initiative of Italy and Germany. The GDPR disappoints 2 years after its implementation and the EU is Europe Cell Phone Number List preparing to strengthen its controls on big technology companies after the coronavirus crisis In Spain, the historic fines on CaixaBank and BBVA can be interpreted as a change in strategy by the AEPD . Ewa Kurowska-Tober, global vice president of DLA Piper's Data Protection and Security Group, explains in the Financial Times that regulators have been "testing the limits of their powers this year, proposing fines for a wide variety of GDPR breaches." . However, things have not always turned out as the agencies thought.
“Regulators have not always had things easy: there have been successful appeals that have greatly reduced the proposed penalties,” Kurowska-Tober continues. European data protection agencies are already investigating how WhatsApp shares information about its users with Facebook Ross McKean, president of DLA Piper's Data Protection and Security Group for the United Kingdom, assures that in many cases these organizations have turned a "blind eye" during the pandemic when understanding the economic hardships suffered by several companies. An obvious example was that of the British data protection authority, which reduced the fine against British Airways from 183 million, imposed in 2018, to 20 million.