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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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by authority- Data Protection Commission (DPC) €1.2m 100 % · 2 cases
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per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
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| Q2 2025 | 1 | €550,000 |
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| Q1 2026 | 0 | — |
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| Q3 2026 | 1 | €645,000 |
2 cases
25 Aug 2026 Health Service Executive (HSE)Irish health service HSE: 645,000 EUR for neglected paper patient records €645,000
In 2023, intruders gained access to two former psychiatric hospitals and posted videos of the patient records stored there online. An inspection of twelve sites found records with mould, water and animal damage in unsuitable rooms, up to and including shipping containers. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed a fine of 645,000 EUR, issued a reprimand and ordered audits and the relocation of records.
Data protection also applies to paper archives in disused buildings – retention requires an inventory, erasure periods and physical security.
Physical security and retention of paper records
- Authority / court
- Data Protection Commission (DPC)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data breaches and data security
- Legal basis
- DSGVO Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. e und f, 32 Abs. 1, 33 Abs. 1, 34 Abs. 1
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Public sector
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 2 Sep 2026
- Data Protection Commission announces Final Decision following Inquiry into the Health Service Executive (HSE) Press release of an authority
- EDPB – DPC announces Final Decision following Inquiry into the HSE Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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12 Jun 2025 Department of Social Protection (DSP)DPC: 550,000 EUR against Irish social protection ministry over facial matching without legal basis €550,000
For registration for the Public Services Card, the ministry created biometric facial templates of a large part of the population without a sufficiently clear legal basis, with deficient information and an incomplete data protection impact assessment. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued a reprimand, imposed 550,000 EUR and ordered the biometric processing to be stopped within nine months if no valid legal basis is found.
Biometric procedures require a precise statutory basis and a complete impact assessment before they are rolled out widely.
- Authority / court
- Data Protection Commission (DPC)
- Area of law
- Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
- Legal basis
- Art. 5 Abs. 1 lit. a und e, Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 9 Abs. 1, Art. 13, Art. 35 Abs. 7 DSGVO
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Public sector
- Mitigating circumstances
- No deficiencies were found in the technical and organisational security measures.
- Published
- 12 Jun 2025
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link