Research: GDPR fines top €60 million, with over 124 fines issued year-to-date
ew research released today by Finbold reveals which countries in Europe violate GDPR guidelines the most, as well as the total combined GDPR fines of EU countries to date.
You can view the research in full here:
https://finbold.com/gdpr-fines-2020/
With it being over two years since GDPR was implemented in the EU and EEA, the team over at Finbold has studied the fines and penalties that data protection authorities have imposed in the EU, by sourcing data from the GDPR Enforcement Tracker fines database.
The top ten EU countries with the biggest total GDPR fines are:
| Rank | Country | Total Fines (€) | No. Of Fines |
| 1 | Italy | 45,609,000 | 13 |
| 2 | Sweden | 7,031,800 | 4 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2,080,000 | 3 |
| 4 | Spain | 1,952,810 | 76 |
| 5 | Germany | 1,240,000 | 1 |
| 6 | Norway | 742,060 | 8 |
| 7 | Belgium | 717,000 | 7 |
| 8 | Hungary | 299,300 | 6 |
| 9 | Finland | 200,500 | 4 |
| 10 | Ireland | 115,000 | 2 |
Other key findings from this report include:
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€60,181,250 is the total GDPR fine of EU countries, as of 2020
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The most common GDPR violation is the insufficient legal basis for data processing
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The country with the most GDPR violations is Spain, with 76 fines
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Italy is the country with the biggest GDPR fine total at €45.6 million
