Early GDPR Penalties: Analysis of Implementation and Fines Through May 2020

IF 1 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Josephine Wolff, Nicole Atallah
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Abstract

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which went into effect in May 2018 enabled European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) to fine companies up to 4 percent of their annual revenue in the event that they were found in violation of the regulations requirements for data collection, processing, and use. But the regulation gave DPAs considerable leeway to determine how they would implement these penalties. This paper analyzes 261 publicly available GDPR enforcement orders issued by DPAs during the first 24 months of the GDPR implementation. The findings show that most GDPR fines levied so far have been relatively small, many of them within the thresholds set by earlier laws prior to the GDPR. Additionally, only half of the GDPR Articles for which penalties are designated have actually resulted in public enforcement actions, and those fines that have been levied focus primarily on violations of five particular Articles, four of which pertain primarily to user privacy protections. However, despite the fact that most of the fines issued under the GDPR have been in response to privacy violations, the largest fines have been triggered by security incidents, and, on average, security violations still receive larger fines than privacy violations.
早期GDPR处罚:截至2020年5月的实施和罚款分析
2018年5月生效的《通用数据保护条例》(GDPR)允许欧洲数据保护机构(dpa)在发现公司违反数据收集、处理和使用规定的情况下,对其处以高达年收入4%的罚款。但这项规定给了地方行政部门相当大的余地来决定如何实施这些处罚。本文分析了GDPR实施后的前24个月,dpa发布的261份公开的GDPR执行令。调查结果显示,迄今为止征收的大多数GDPR罚款都相对较小,其中许多都在GDPR之前的早期法律设定的门槛之内。此外,在指定处罚的GDPR条款中,只有一半实际上导致了公共执法行动,而这些罚款主要集中在违反五项特定条款的情况下,其中四项主要与用户隐私保护有关。然而,尽管根据GDPR发布的大多数罚款都是针对侵犯隐私的行为,但最大的罚款是由安全事件引发的,平均而言,违反安全行为的罚款仍然高于违反隐私行为。
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