The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has announced a €450,000 fine on Twitter for data breaches under GDPR.
It’s the first fine on a multinational tech firm from the Irish regulator since GDPR was introduced.
The amount of the fine was disputed among European regulators, with other countries unhappy with the scale of the sanction. Germany wanted to impose a fine of between €7m and €22m on Twitter, which recorded annual revenue of $3.46bn (€2.7bn) in 2019. Under GDPR rules, European data regulators can fine companies up to 4pc of their annual turnover.
However, the Irish office says the €450,000 is an “effective, proportionate and dissuasive measure”.
Monday, December 14, 2020
On December 10, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it has levied fines of €60 million on Google LLC and €40 million on Google Ireland Limited under the French cookie rules for their alleged failure to (1) obtain the consent of users of the French version of Google’s search engine (google.fr) before setting advertising cookies on their devices; (2) provide users with adequate information about the use of cookies; and (3) implement a fully effective opt-out mechanism to enable users to refuse cookies. On the same date, the CNIL announced that it has levied a fine of €35 million on Amazon Europe Core under the same rules for its alleged failure to (1) obtain the consent of users of the amazon.fr site before setting advertising cookies on their devices; and (2) provide adequate information about the use of cookies.