The Garante issued the largest ever GDPR fine in Italy against ENEL Energia, which, however, shows deficiencies in the enforcement procedures that should be improved to benefit privacy-related values across Europe.ย
The Court of Rome cancelled the GDPR fine of EUR 26.5 million issued by the Italian data protection authority against ENEL, one of the largest energy companies in the world because it was issued too late, after the expiry of the procedural terms.
The Italian data protection authority (the Garante) issued a GDPR fine for criminal checks without a privacy-related legal basis consolidating a position leading to significant issues for multinational companies in handling their employees' data.
The Italian privacy authority has issued a GDPR fine for installing CCTV systems in the workplace in violation of obligations under Article 4 of the Workers' Statute.
The GDPR fine of โฌ 1.2 billion issued by the Irish data protection commission against Meta raises the question of how companies deal with data transfers leading to a status of anxiety perfectly expressed by The Scream of Munch.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has made waves with its recent decision to levy a staggering EUR 390 million GDPR fine against Meta for its practices in behavioural advertising, creating a precedent potentially impacting online behavioural advertising by any business, and changing the Internet as we know it.
On October 20, 2022, the Italian data protection authorityย issued a GDPR fine of 1.4 million euros for multiple violations related to the CRM card system against a well-known perfume store chain.
The Irish privacy authority issued a โฌ 405 million fine against social platform Instagram for violating the GDPR in the collection and processing of data from users aged 13 to 17.