TikTok looks set for a new €500m fine by Ireland’s DPC over transfer of European customer data to China in breach of GDPR.

Fines for breaching EU laws are “not tariffs in any way,” said analyst Varg Folkman at the European Policy Centre. “I can understand them [Trump and tech bosses] seeing it that way, but it’s a stark ...

While the cartel involved almost every major automaker, European groups received some of the biggest fines. Volkswagen was hit with a €127 million fine, Renault-Nissan with a €81 million fine ...

France’s antitrust regulator fined Apple Inc. €150 million ($162 million) after a lengthy probe into how the technology ...

The GDPR entered into force in 2018. Besides the Amazon fine, Meta faced the biggest penalty issued to any company: €1.2 billion. The company also appealed.

The impending fine comes as ByteDance faces an April 5 deadline to find a buyer for TikTok’s US operations or see the app ...

and CA Osasuna have also been fined by the AEPD for allegedly violating elements of the GDPR through their use of biometric systems. LaLiga has appealed its €1 million fine and said the charges ...

On 27 March 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued a £3.07 million fine to an IT services provider following a ransomware ...

WhatsApp could still avoid a fine of 225 million euros for data protection ... based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). WhatsApp is alleged to have passed on data to Facebook ...

(The GDPR allows for fines of up to 4% of a company's global annual revenue for serious GDPR violations.) The impact of GDPR was not merely regulatory — it triggered a cultural shift. Just as ...