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GDPR Enforcement

Regulatory penalties and decisions issued under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, including lead-authority jurisdiction and appeals.

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Italy's privacy regulator fines IQVIA 7 million euros over re-identifiable patient codes

Italy's privacy regulator fined IQVIA 7 million euros after finding coded records on about one million patients could be traced back to individuals. Teams that pool health records under one persistent patient key now have a regulator's written reasoning for why removing names fell short.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+5
Incentives30
Confidence64
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The 825 million euro lesson: an automated suspension that stops earnings needs a human and an appeal

The Dutch regulator's fine against Uber turns the rules on automated decisions into a build order: meaningful review before the action lands, and a contest route the driver can actually find.

Perspective Coverage

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Builder 28%
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Operator 45%
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Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence65
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Grindr pays £26m over claims two analytics providers received users' HIV status

More than 11,000 UK claimants, two named analytics providers and no admission of liability have produced a hard figure for what one app's pre-2020 profile data was worth, payable in two £13m tranches.

Perspective Coverage

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Builder 23%
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Operator 51%
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Investor 26%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence74
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Ireland prices Google's location-data window at about 650,000 euros a day

The Data Protection Commission's EUR 403m penalty, its fourth-largest under GDPR, covers 620 days of location processing that ended in February 2020. Against Alphabet's reported revenue that is about 0.15 percent.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Builder 19%
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Operator 49%
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Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives50
Confidence75
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The DPC gave Google six months to fix the location processing it fined 403 million euros

Ireland's Data Protection Commission found lawfulness, fairness and retention failures in Web & App Activity and Location History, and transparency failures in all three location features it examined. One of them runs for Android users who never signed in.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
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Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 53%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+5
Incentives40
Confidence75