GDPR 2025: €1.2bn in fines, 160,000 data breach notifications
by Sypher | Published in News - January 26, 2026
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European GDPR fines totalled approximately €1.2bn in 2025
💶 GDPR enforcement in Europe remained relentless in 2025, with €1.2 billion in fines issued, including a landmark €530 million sanction against TikTok. This was the largest GDPR penalty of the year and the first major enforcement action targeting personal data transfers to China... read more
Over 160,000 companies notified regulators of GDPR breaches in 2025
📜 The eighth annual edition of DLA Piper’s GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey shows breach notifications rising 22% in 2025, alongside sustained high levels of GDPR enforcement across Europe… read more
CNIL releases recommendations on multi-device consent for cookies and trackers
🍪France’s data protection authority has published new guidance on multi-device cookie consent in logged-in environments, clarifying how organisations can apply account-level preferences across devices while meeting transparency and data minimisation requirements… read more
Get smart: data portability is moving from concept to reality
slaughterandmay.com • 4 min read
💡The GDPR, the Digital Markets Act and the Data Act promise to enable large-scale data sharing, but will introduce significant operational and compliance challenges for organisations from 2026 onwards… read more
Tech companies owe the Irish DPA over €4B in fines, but hardly anyone pays
💶 Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has imposed more than €4B in GDPR fines since 2018, but court appeals mean only a fraction has been collected so far, raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of enforcement in practice… read more
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