General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Context: European regulators imposed EUR114 million in fines for GDPR violation.

• France, Germany and Austria topped total value of GDPR fines with over EUR51 million, EUR24.5 million and EUR18 million respectively.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

• The European Union started enforcing General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May, 2018, a legal framework that sets guidelines for collecting and processing individual’s personal data.
• 6 lakh data breaches have been reported so far; the Netherlands reported most violations, followed by Germany and the UK with 40,647, 37,636 and 22,181 each.
• The GDPR was presented as a powerful instrument for European data privacy laws that could charge companies and set an example for the rest of the world on how to corporations should treat personal data.
• The highest GDPR fine was levied on Google by France’s data protection regulator.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/european-regulators-imposed-eur114-million-in-fines-for-gdpr-violation/article33634277.ece?homepage=true