Although the GDPR fine value was slightly higher in 2025, the number of personal data breach reports rose even more.
Europe has levied €1.2 billion in GDPR fines during 2025 as data privacy enforcement remains a key priority for authorities.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) remains Europe's largest data enforcer by a wide margin, having issued €4.04 ...
Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...
Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force GDPR fines ...
The final decision of the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) [1] in relation to the transfers of EU/EEA Facebook user data by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta Ireland) to its processor, Meta ...
On October 24, 2024, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued a press release announcing its EUR 310 million fine of LinkedIn over the platform’s use of member personal data in breach of the ...
GDPR enforcement across Europe remained consistently high throughout 2025, with regulators issuing fines totalling ...
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Meta €17 million ($18.6 million) over 12 data breaches. It said the company violated several articles of the European Union's General Data Protection ...
Concerns have been raised about the use of the data of more than 350,000 children after post-primary schools provided ...