GDPR in numbers
6. February 2019
The European Commission lately posted an infographics about the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since its entering into force on May 25, 2018. The graphic looks at complying, enforcement and awareness of the GDPR. It illustrates inter alia that:
- In total 95.180 complaints to Data Protection Authorities came from individuals who believe their rights under GDPR have been violated. Most of the complaints were related to CCTV, telemarketing or promotional e-mails.
- Until January, the number of notifications of data breaches has increased up to 41.502. The data controllers have to notify data breaches within 72 hours to their national supervisory authority.
- Data Protection Authorities have initiated 225 investigations in cross border cases.
- In Europe, 23 countries have adopted their national data protection law since the GDPR came into force. Bulgaria, Greece, Slovenia, Portugal and Czech Republic are still in progress doing so.
- So far, three fines have been issued under GDPR. In Germany, a social network operator was fined € 20.000 for not securing its users data. In France, Google was fined € 50 million for lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding the ads personalization (we reported) and in Austria, a sports betting café was fined € 5.280 for unlawful video surveillance.
