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Who was sanctioned, and for what?
Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 718 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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Where?
by countryWhat for?
by topic- no topic €5,000 100 % · 1 case
Who?
by companyNo cases for this selection.
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q3 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2023 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2024 | 1 | €5,000 |
| Q1 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | — |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | — |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | — |
1 case
16 Oct 2024 DSB: 5,000 EUR against Covid laboratory with managing director as data protection officer €5,000
A limited company operating a diagnostic laboratory (name pseudonymised), which during the pandemic carried out up to 45,000 PCR analyses a day with around 200 employees, had appointed its managing director as data protection officer at the same time. Because of the resulting conflict of interest, the Austrian data protection authority (Datenschutzbehörde, DSB) imposed 5,000 EUR; the penalty decision is final.
Whoever decides on the purposes and means of processing cannot monitor themselves as data protection officer.
- Authority / court
- Datenschutzbehörde (DSB)
- Area of law
- Data protection
- Legal basis
- Art. 37, Art. 38 Abs. 6 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Employees
- 50 to 249
- Liability of senior managers
- The managing director was also appointed as data protection officer – an impermissible conflict of interest.
- DSB Straferkenntnis GZ 2024-0.641.771 vom 16.10.2024 (RIS) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link