Enforcement has picked up with full speed again.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic was a factor for more leniency regarding GDPR violations, but only for a period of about three months or so. “Authorities are increasingly using their enforcement instruments and expecting companies to have become fully compliant with the GDPR,” suggests Jan Feuerhake, a partner at Taylor Wessing. Since coming into force in the European Union (EU) in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has done much to identify and penalise data privacy violations, with total fines enforced to date across all EU member states approaching €300m.Īnd although enforcement activity dipped somewhat during the early months of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, application of the regulation has since returned to its prior intensity, with supervisory authorities having issued over €170m worth of fines, including one authority alone imposing a €100m penalty. DIGITAL DEFENDER: GDPR TOUGH BUT FAIR ON DATA BREACHES
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