The world is trying to avoid privacy infringements and governments are doing everything in their power to provide protection against tracking. This is where the GDPR steps in.
For those who may not be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation is another name provided for a policy in the European Union. The main goal is to take into account how users’ data is being collected and then further sent off for processing.
Therefore, you can see the GDPR covering all sorts of elements related to privacy like cookies present on sites and even more detailed accounts of how employees are being monitored at the workspace.
But what really must be remembered is that if there is any firm situated out of the European Union it goes about collecting data from European citizens, they need to stick to this GDPR policy.
And in case someone chooses not to oblige to the rules outlined, well, they’re bound to be penalized with heavy fines.
Now, a new analysis by the Atlas VPN is taking center stage, proving how the fines imposed in this regard by the GDPR showed a staggering 92% increase. This is in comparison to H1 of last year.
Therefore, the exact amount that was outlined was near 100 million Euros, 97.29 million to be more precise.
The data was stated to have been extracted through Enforcementtracker, while the firm revealed that it must be considered how all penalties aren’t even made public.
On average, both firms and the individuals had been charged around 50 million Euros in H1 of last year. This was in regards to penalties during that time. So, you can see how much it’s increased this year. But thankfully, we do see a slight decrease in legal cases pertaining to the subject, which went down from 215 to 205 this year.
Hence, it’s quite clear that the number of violations did decrease but they were to the most severe extent and that’s why we’re seeing the fines be so much worse.
The biggest difference was noticed in the month of February when you look at both years’ figures. And that difference is nearly 28 million Euros. Another interesting finding is how there’s a distinctive pattern that you can’t miss out upon. And that’s related to how the majority of the violations took place between Q1 of both years.
So as you can see, if the GDPR wasn’t implemented, we’d have so many violations going unnoticed.
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For those who may not be aware, the General Data Protection Regulation is another name provided for a policy in the European Union. The main goal is to take into account how users’ data is being collected and then further sent off for processing.
Therefore, you can see the GDPR covering all sorts of elements related to privacy like cookies present on sites and even more detailed accounts of how employees are being monitored at the workspace.
But what really must be remembered is that if there is any firm situated out of the European Union it goes about collecting data from European citizens, they need to stick to this GDPR policy.
And in case someone chooses not to oblige to the rules outlined, well, they’re bound to be penalized with heavy fines.
Now, a new analysis by the Atlas VPN is taking center stage, proving how the fines imposed in this regard by the GDPR showed a staggering 92% increase. This is in comparison to H1 of last year.
Therefore, the exact amount that was outlined was near 100 million Euros, 97.29 million to be more precise.
The data was stated to have been extracted through Enforcementtracker, while the firm revealed that it must be considered how all penalties aren’t even made public.
On average, both firms and the individuals had been charged around 50 million Euros in H1 of last year. This was in regards to penalties during that time. So, you can see how much it’s increased this year. But thankfully, we do see a slight decrease in legal cases pertaining to the subject, which went down from 215 to 205 this year.
Hence, it’s quite clear that the number of violations did decrease but they were to the most severe extent and that’s why we’re seeing the fines be so much worse.
The biggest difference was noticed in the month of February when you look at both years’ figures. And that difference is nearly 28 million Euros. Another interesting finding is how there’s a distinctive pattern that you can’t miss out upon. And that’s related to how the majority of the violations took place between Q1 of both years.
So as you can see, if the GDPR wasn’t implemented, we’d have so many violations going unnoticed.
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