Recently, the Berlin Data Protection Authority (Berlin DPA) announced that it would issue a high administrative fine for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR). The announcement is available in German on the website of the City of Berlin. The fine will likely be a double-digit million amount
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First European Cookie Fine Issued By Spanish Data Protection Authority
By Cynthia O’Donoghue on
The Spanish data protection authority, the AEPD, has issued the first European cookie fine for the violation of Article 22.2 of Spain’s Information Society Services and Electronic Communications Law 34/2002 (Spanish E-Commerce Act), as amended by Royal Decree Law 13/2012 which implements the e-Privacy Directive (Directive 2002/58).
On 29 April 2013, the AEPD issued…