{"id":9395,"date":"2019-07-09T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:56:28","slug":"gdpr-few-fines-levied-during-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/gdpr-few-fines-levied-during-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"GDPR: Few Fines Levied During First Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 25, 2018. The day that the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulation went into effect. Six months ago we did a post<\/a> where we noted that many companies weren’t in compliance. During this first year there have been few enforcements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s not to say there have been no fines. In the first 12 months, there were 91 cases with fines totally \u20ac56 million. The bulk of this though is one fine that originated in France against Google for \u20ac50 million. Some had been expecting fines to run into the billions (\u20ac\/$).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Hayes<\/a>, vice president at Attunity, said that<\/a> “the only company that I\u2019ve seen that\u2019s a big news story as far as GDPR enforcement was that fine that they imposed on Google. And I believe Google is challenging it, but I haven\u2019t seen too much enforcement of GDPR outside of that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some expect that EU regulators will gear up their enforcement efforts soon. Initially low or no fines have given companies more time to make corrections to their internet activities and to achieve compliance. It’s likely that the period of leniency may be winding down. But then, if enforcement continues to remain lax, many companies may see no incentive to change and continue to only loosely comply with GDPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen Dixon<\/a>, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, commented to the WSJ<\/a> that “the process is well under way and we\u2019ll start to see the outputs in the coming months. A lot of the investigations we have are significantly advanced.”<\/p>\n

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May 25, 2018. The day that the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulation went into effect. Six months ago we did a post where we noted that many companies weren’t in compliance. During this first year there have been…<\/span><\/p>\n

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