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The Spanish Data Protection Agency has imposed two million-dollar fines in a single month: one on December 11 to BBVA for 5 million euros , and another to CaixaBank on January 13 for 6 million. Both together add up to 11 million euros, which represents 70% of all fines proposed since 2018, when the new European Data Protection Regulation came into force. The data is public and collected in the GDPR Enforcement Tracker, a platform of CMS, one of the largest legal firms in Europe. Right now the Spanish Data Protection Agency continues to be the European control body that has opened the most procedures and cases against companies, far ahead of its counterparts. However, the amount of their sanctions is far from being the same as that of countries such as Italy, Germany or France, where their sanctions exceed 50 million euros.
Eticas, the Spanish firm that audits algorithms for governments and technology companies, publishes an 'instruction manual' in which it details how they do it In Spain, the GDPR Enforcement Tracker registers sanctions for violating the Data Protection Regulation that amount to more than 15,520,000 euros. These sanctions are divided into 173 procedures, of which only 2 together Europe Cell Phone Number List exceed 11 million euros. For comparison, and according to data from the platform itself, Spain is the country that has opened and sanctioned the most procedures. Its 173 cases opened against firms for violating the GDPR easily surpass the second country in number of procedures, which is Romania, with only 47. If Spain has collected more than 15 and a half million euros in 173 procedures, Romania has fined 47 times for an amount of only 670,000. Italy continues in another orbit, which with only 40 procedures has filed fines worth nearly 70 million euros. Germany has 28 registered procedures, but the fines imposed exceed 63 million.
France , with only 12 cases, also exceeds 54 million. A paradoxical case is that of the British control body, which is already left out of the statistics after having implemented Brexit: in the United Kingdom , the data protection authorities have proposed 4 sanctions for a value that exceed, all together, the 44 millions of euros. With the historic fines to BBVA and CaixaBank , the AEPD surpasses the Swedish control body, which has opened 12 procedures with sanction proposals exceeding 12 million euros. But to get to this point, we have had to wait nearly 3 years, since the GDPR came into force, to see the million-dollar sanctions that have been seen against banking entities. Until the resolutions against BBVA and CaixaBank were known, the AEPD's largest sanction proposal was registered in mid-2019: 250,000 euros in an open case against the Professional Football League.
Eticas, the Spanish firm that audits algorithms for governments and technology companies, publishes an 'instruction manual' in which it details how they do it In Spain, the GDPR Enforcement Tracker registers sanctions for violating the Data Protection Regulation that amount to more than 15,520,000 euros. These sanctions are divided into 173 procedures, of which only 2 together Europe Cell Phone Number List exceed 11 million euros. For comparison, and according to data from the platform itself, Spain is the country that has opened and sanctioned the most procedures. Its 173 cases opened against firms for violating the GDPR easily surpass the second country in number of procedures, which is Romania, with only 47. If Spain has collected more than 15 and a half million euros in 173 procedures, Romania has fined 47 times for an amount of only 670,000. Italy continues in another orbit, which with only 40 procedures has filed fines worth nearly 70 million euros. Germany has 28 registered procedures, but the fines imposed exceed 63 million.
France , with only 12 cases, also exceeds 54 million. A paradoxical case is that of the British control body, which is already left out of the statistics after having implemented Brexit: in the United Kingdom , the data protection authorities have proposed 4 sanctions for a value that exceed, all together, the 44 millions of euros. With the historic fines to BBVA and CaixaBank , the AEPD surpasses the Swedish control body, which has opened 12 procedures with sanction proposals exceeding 12 million euros. But to get to this point, we have had to wait nearly 3 years, since the GDPR came into force, to see the million-dollar sanctions that have been seen against banking entities. Until the resolutions against BBVA and CaixaBank were known, the AEPD's largest sanction proposal was registered in mid-2019: 250,000 euros in an open case against the Professional Football League.