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Data Privacy Fines: Proven Strategies to Safeguard Your Business from GDPR Penalties

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With the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations are now more accountable for the privacy and security of the data they collect and process. Failure to comply with GDPR regulations can result in severe penalties and fines. In this article, we will explore the intricacies of data privacy fines and provide proven […]

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Decoding GDPR: Your Questions Answered

How do you obtain valid consent under GDPR? What level of data security is ‘secure’? How long should you keep hold of personal data? In this post, we answer some of your most frequently asked GDPR questions. What’s the difference between a data controller and a data processor, and how does this affect compliance? There’s […]

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GDPR Administrative Fines and How to Avoid Them

The fines under the GDPR, especially in situations where there has been incidents of severe violations and infringement of personal data, as noted in article 83(5) of the GDPR, can be issued in amount that is equivalent to 4% of the organization’s global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, or up to 20 million euros, […]

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Instagram fined for violating GDPR regulations

The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Instagram in amount of €405 million euros for breaching the privacy rights of children under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The investigation focused on how the platform allowed users aged between 13 to 17 years to operate accounts which showed their phone numbers and email addresses. This is […]

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Accountability Tracker

As your Article 27 Representative we will always help if you receive a SAR, RTE, or other data protection complaint. It is always best to avoid these all together but most companies will receive GDPR requests at some point.  Disgruntled ex-employees, annoyed customers, malicious compensation-scammers are common sources of SARs and unfortunately these can result […]

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Right to Erasure and how to handle it

Summary: The Right to Be Forgotten is one of the fundamental rights defined in GDPR.  Also known as a Right to Erasure this principle defined in Article 17. It is vital that companies recognize these requests and understand how to deal with them. Most importantly the Right to Erasure is not an absolute right and […]

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Most common types of GDPR violations

As GDPR effect is growing day by day and a lot of companies are affected, we would like to present a recap of the most common mistakes that companies are making that need to be avoided in order not to face SAR’s data breaches or investigation from the responsible authority and face a huge fine. […]

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The biggest GDPR fines of 2020 (and how to avoid them)

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Breaching the GDPR can cost you up to €20 million, or 4% of annual global turnover, whichever is highest. This means you want to avoid fines wherever possible. We have compiled the three biggest GPDR related fines of 2020 to show you what went wrong, and how you can avoid making these costly errors. 3. […]

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