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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 1,370 cases from 35 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.

1case from 1 jurisdiction
€1.8mTotal of monetary amounts
€1.8mLargest single case: Informa D&B, S.A.
€1.8mMedian per case with an amount

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1 case

14 Apr 2025 Informa D&B, S.A.AEPD: €1.8m fine for credit reference agency Informa D&B over purchased sole trader data SpainData subject rights and transparency €1.8m

Informa D&B processed data on sole traders that originated from the business census kept by the chambers of commerce and had been acquired through a contract with Camerdata, without a legal basis and without informing the data subjects. The AEPD imposed 900,000 EUR each for breaching Art. 6(1) and Art. 14 GDPR, 1,800,000 EUR in total, and ordered the processing to stop and the data to be erased; the request for reconsideration was dismissed.

What organisations can take from it

Anyone buying in data from public registers must establish their own legal basis and inform the data subjects.

Authority / court
Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD)
Area of law
Data protection · Data subject rights and transparency
Legal basis
Art. 6 Abs. 1, Art. 14 DSGVO
Action
Fine
Status of proceedings
unknown
Sector
Other
Published
19 Dec 2025

Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link

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